The Economics of Optimism

Added on 25 February 2009

This from yesterday's news: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Tuesday the worst recession in decades might end this year, and that regulators aren't planning to nationalize banks. Investors, battered for months by news of massive layoffs and huge bank losses, took heart from the...

New Series Covers

Added on 24 February 2009

Here are the works in progress for the rest of the covers to tie in with the updated The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson. While there should be a continuation of the theme of the first, these are a little bit too similar. I particularly like the cover for The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt, but on first...

What It Doesn't Mean To Be Scottish

Added on 23 February 2009

The first day of school after the half-term break. Seems like more than ten days since last we visited the shrine of learning. Either the days have dragged or we've done a lot. During the break both kids picked up a hacking cough. Had I been Polish I would have had them along to a doctor and the doc...

Temporary Absence

Added on 17 February 2009

Douglas Lindsay is currently on holiday in Scotland. It's raining. Lost in Juarez will return on Monday 23rd February. Until then, make yourself a cup of tea, get some chocolate, and click on the picture beneath to listen to The Strange Case of Solomon Green.

The Return of The Strange Case of Solomon Green

Added on 16 February 2009

Another week of school holiday is upon us, and so we stay-at-home parents descend once more into the black abyss. The Strange Case of Solomon Green, rock's new mega-band for 2009, finished their first recording sessions in SoundandMore studio last week here in Warsaw. Some roughly mixed takes can be...