One from my Visual Slushpile photo blog: As I've ranted in my blogs before, I'm of two minds on graffiti - having been both a graff...

I was curious about the old Otis Hidden Company building in Portland, KY (West of Louisville), and did some Googling. Turns out Mr. Hidden ...

This utility pole in Portland, KY has been smashed nearly in two and is toppling dangerously, but continues to be allowed to remain in this ...

One from my Visual Slushpile photo blog: In downtown Louisville, under every street, the original cobblestone streets are hidden beneath a ...

Very interesting piece today from the New York Times about a painted gatefold icon that was stolen in Italy in 1971. 40 years after it vani...

Two summers ago , I found myself caught in a spooky pre-tornadic storm as I made my way East on Shelbyville Road and then moved sideward to ...

One from our Whitewashed Windows and Vacant Stores blog: Although I rarely ate there, Genny's Diner was a Louisville tradition and I w...

Off the top of my noggin, I'm hard-pressed to think of another instance where I've seen a grave with two larger-than-life statues, o...

Tuesday afternoon I walked out of Bakery Square in Butchertown to find all Washington Street lined with fire trucks and police cars, all wi...

Last week, while meandering through St. Louis Cemetery in the Highlands of Louisville, I took a couple shots of this imposing grave marker w...

I love these old "Whiskey by the Drink" signs, from those bygone Don Draper days when women and television sets wore bunny ears. ...

The tallest building in Kentucky is Louisville's AEGON Center, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee, the architects who brought t...

Tonight I've been doing a little research for my proposed fifteen-volume encyclopedic work What Used To Be Where, Back In The Day (and ...

Cruised by the Frankfort Avenue Art House the other day and spied a new addition to his menagerie: an antique standup of Reddy Kilowatt, in...

Was out wandering in the woods again this morning and a storm started blowing in. I thought I'd better skidoo since I'd heard report...

One from our high view department: a relatively high crow's-nest view looking down at Butchertown from the top of Bakery Square.

Some of the most interesting buildings in America come from the tradition of Islamic Architecture , and Kentucky's no exception. Picture...

And speaking of William Burroughs (which we were in the previous post), if you've read him (and I'm going to assume you have becaus...

Today is Thomas Edison's 164th birthday. I just saw him the other day and he doesn't look a day over 125. As happens every year, the...