Welcome to Austria!
To the mastermind behind this vandalism I award a gold star. I seldom do narratives on this blog because I seldom pull them off, but I’m going to try anyway. Yesterday I was in a cozy Stockholm...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: An Austrian Love
I feel glad to be alone here. I’m often at peace, but the calm is especially pronounced as I wind through the Bavarian Alps. The crystal clear water probably splashes clarity. Talking with some...
View ArticleA Robot, A Film Camera, and Eastern Europe
A melody, maybe? Bucharest I arrived to Bucharest on its hottest recorded day ever. What can I say, I do that to places. Sighisoara Dracula’s hometown manages to attract many visitors, but it’s not...
View ArticleSoviet Secrets are Forever
May, 1991: Antoliy Dyatlov Kills Himself by Way of Rope. This isn’t true, of course. Dyatlov died in 1995 of heart failure. * * * There was a cartoon published in the New Yorker shortly after the...
View ArticleSinister Soups and Buckets
I did a lot of what I wanted to do this year. I hope you did too. All the same, my Bucket List 2012 will be left incomplete. I didn’t manage to run 16 miles in one session, but I set a new personal...
View ArticleBeatniks in Wine Country
As I have my mom on speakerphone, she doesn’t realize I’m standing on a table. and all I’m taking is my camera, film, toothbrush, and books. While I’ve never been to the Pacific Northwest, it’s not the...
View ArticleNow What?
I have a diploma in my possession as well as a world of opportunity, I like to believe. But now what? You’re done unpacking and you wonder, “now what?” That standing still, tilted head, hands on hips...
View ArticlePho: A Worthwhile Tedium
A large portion of my living budget is designated for pho, an overwhelmingly flavorful Vietnamese soup that consists of different types of red meat, animal parts, and rice noodles. As such, making pho...
View ArticleGolden Gates
Road trip. Instant coffee. Johnny Cash. Yellowstone-Bryce-Zion-Yosemite. Mileage. Hot tea in cold hands. Stars. The Sun Also Rises. Snaky rivers, sea foam green and sapphire. General stores. Dusty...
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The “Fuck This _____” moment is a moment of patent irreconcilability. It’s the instant that you decide you can no longer live a certain way, cloaked by a certain pretense, a declaration of the...
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