Nobody I know really likes them, those four artificial waterfalls lining the Brooklyn side of upper New York Harbor. They’re the summer art blockbuster that fizzled. “Underwhelming,” one friend pronounced. “They don’t stand up to the scale of the Brooklyn Bridge, let alone the whole city,” an acquaintance elaborated. “I don’t know — they just [...]
Having been on the road for a couple of weeks, I’m struck once again by the fantastic number of truly wacky things there are to see out there. Not just cow chip bingo, but the many other random monuments to kitsch, creativity and questionable taste.
Herewith, a few notable examples from recent travels, and some from [...]
Stella is on vacation in the cradle of Western civilization.
She traveled through tiny streets and the unlikely police blockades of the neighborhood of Exarchia to see a movie.
The movie theatre is open air in the middle of several apartment blocks. The fountains gurgle before the film starts and they play 70s music. It’s [...]
Can you list all of your school mascots? My high school and my undergraduate are the same and relatively common but I’ve had some winners along the way. I’ve been a Viking, a Toro, a 49er, and even (shudder) a Trojan. My most recent school has no mascot whatsoever. This was crazy to me. Sure, [...]
It’s nice to take a road trip every once in a while. You see things you don’t normally see.
We drove north on I-5 all day Friday. If you think there’s a whole lot of nothing along the highways in your state, you should try driving eight hours up I-5 in California.
Finally, as night fell, we [...]