I've been asked to post more pictures.

Here is a nice one that forms the basis of the title banner; I took it from the rooftop bar of my hotel in the Sultanahmet district where I originally hatched this cockamamy scheme in June 2005. On the left is the famous Blue Mosque, built in the seventeenth century by Sultan Ahmet I. On the right is the Obelisk of Tuthmosis III, stolen in the fourth century from the Temple of Karnak in Luxor. Even back then, when the Emperor Theodosius purloined it from the Pharoahs, it was over a thousand years old. Clearly, it was built by aliens.

Here is a link to the original email I sent on that day.



A friend of mine is using this as cover art for her new book. I will therefore, technically, be a published photographer. So I got that goin' for me. Which is nice.