So as this is a worldly group out there in Whatsitland, I want to pick your brains. I’ll be spending June traveling, mostly to places I have been before, and I want to see them through new eyes. YOUR eyes. We’re starting with a few days in London, and at some point over the course [...]
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Tuesday videos: Sexy CPR
So, I know everyone really likes the more personal TGW posts, but I’m gonna have to go with a relatively impersonal compendium of amusing video clips today. Dave and Stella set the bar very high last week, and I’m too grumpy and tired at the moment to write anything insightful – sorry! (ed. note: and [...]
Anacondas 0, kidnappers 0, dolphins 5, monkeys 50
Previous readers may remember my mixture of excitement and trepidation before going to Colombia last month. Although most of me was excited by the prospect of this exploration, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t also nervous about it, what with the kidnappings, the malaria, and the anacondas (well, to be honest, I was [...]
You want a shake with those fries?
Sunday afternoon, RB and I were having a snack at the food court of an outlet shopping mall in Southern California. Suddenly, everything in the room began swaying. The floor, the plastic seats we were sitting in, the table, the walls themselves – everything was undulating, sending a hush over the crowd of people. Everyone [...]
Do not panic.
Tomorrow morning I am leaving on a trip, the planning of which has alternately elated and terrified me. I’ll be landing in Bogota tomorrow evening. From there, a girlfriend and I will fly to the southern tip of Colombia, where it meets Peru and Brazil, to a small town called Leticia. We’ll take a boat [...]
Cleanup on the Gowanus Canal
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency created a Superfund site just four blocks from my apartment. The Gowanus Canal is a two-mile waterway running through South Brooklyn into Gowanus Bay near Red Hook (where the new Ikea is). Henry Hudson and Giovanni di Verrazano both navigated the Gowanus Inlet, which led to salt marshes and [...]
Best use of Jew’s harp, 2010
And the award goes to: Bez Chempionlar, the Tatar folk version of “We Are the Champions.” What’s amazing about this is, if you didn’t know the original song, you would totally believe this is a Tatar folk song: Of course, judging from other Tatar folk music online, it’s a little more polka-esque than one might [...]
Green mountains turn white
Swells and I are enjoying a week in southern Vermont. We went on a stroll through the forest yesterday, and were amazed by the GREENS: And if things weren’t wonderful enough, five inches of pure white brilliance blanketed the area this morning: Here’s to a magnificent new year…
Welcome to Delaware!
RB and I drove to Delaware on the day after Christmas to see her family. She has an aunt and uncle who live there, and her parents came for the holiday too. We drove from DC, where my brother lives. Here was the view from the car for the whole trip there: Miserable, wet, windy, [...]
Watching Rambo for the Holidays, Thinking of Home
I confess. I spent a day and a half watching all four Rambo movies back to back. I’m not quite certain what compelled me to start this process, but having started, I ended up sitting through the entire saga of blazing guns, gigantic explosions, over-the-top 80s patriotism, and the ever-ubiquitous bloodsplatter as Rambo does another [...]
