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12/25/06 // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose As I’m sure everyone has heard by now, James Brown died on Christmas day. Normally I’m not one to dwell too much on celebrity deaths, after all it’s not like I knew the man, but some people have an impact … continue reading » Topics: Artists, Bands, Beauty, Eulogy, Music, Soul
12/25/06 // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
Endtroducing… Happy Holidays everyone. I’m back… ya miss me? There’s a new luxagraf for your amusement, but IT’S NOT FINISHED. It has bugs, lots of them, content is missing (mostly photos), old links are broken, it’s a mess really, but eventually … continue reading » Topics: News
11/26/06 // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
Terminal part one “Mama says the sand massages your gums and makes them soft and then your teeth fall out and you chew them up in dreams when you’re anxious you’re anxious arencha Claire?” “Who told you I was anxious? Do you even … continue reading » Topics: Childred, Deserts, Motion, Mountains, River, Sand
06/09/06 // Blog Post from Esperanta Cafe // Manhattan // New York
Homeward New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Axis Wobbles, Home, Round The World Trip, Travel
06/06/06 // Blog Post from Paris Hostel // Paris // France
Cadenza “On the meridian of time there is no justice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and justice”— H. Miller Outside it’s raining. Beads of water form on the window in front of me. The glow of … continue reading » Topics: Axis Wobbles, Europe, Film, Goodbyes, Proust, Round The World Trip
05/28/06 // Blog Post from Hotel, Vienna // Vienna // Austria
I Don’t Sleep I Dream Once you pass through the odd and oversized foyer, which feels like a half finished storefront for H&M or the like, stairs lead up to the first floor. There are essentially only two rooms that bear any resemblance to what … continue reading » Topics: Art, Artists, Dreams, Europe, History, Museum, Round The World Trip, War
05/27/06 // Blog Post from Hotel, Vienna // Vienna // Austria
Unreflected I haven’t written much about the actual traveling lately, chiefly because it’s been by automobile which just isn’t very interesting and for some reason seems to put me to sleep, which it never used to do. Before this trip I … continue reading » Topics: Art, Artists, Beauty, Europe, Museum, Round The World Trip
05/26/06 // Blog Post from Prague // Prague // Czech Republic
Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds “He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his soul so much wider, the way the smells of certain roses circulating in the damp evening air have the property … continue reading » Topics: Architecture, Death, Europe, Holocaust, Human Rights, Memory, Round The World Trip, War
05/25/06 // Blog Post from Cesky Krumlov // Cesky Krumlov // Czech Republic
Inside and Out <p>Cesky Krumlov is a small Czech town nestled on a dramatic bend in the Vltava River. Like any European city worth its salt, it has a dramatic castle on a hill and all the trappings of the once glorious feudal … continue reading » Topics: Art, Artists, Beauty, Europe, Museum, Round The World Trip
05/22/06 // Blog Post from Hotel, Bled // Bled // Slovenia
The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two The chief attraction of Bled Slovenia is the sweeping panorama of the Julian Alps which lie just beyond its doorstep, which in this case is a lake ringed with castles, monasteries atop crags and palatial hotels that once played host … continue reading » Topics: Butterflies, Children, Europe, Flowers, Memory, Mountains, Round The World Trip, War
05/19/06 // Blog Post from Downtown Ljubljana // Ljubljana // Slovenia
Ghost From Dubrovnik we returned north toward Slovenia, stopping along the way to spend one night in the peaceful, almost backwater, Croatia fishing village of Trogir. Like Dubrovnik, Trogir was a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir’s wall has … continue reading » Topics: Archaeology, Europe, Ghosts, Memory, Round The World Trip, Writing
05/17/06 // Blog Post from Hotel Dubrovnik // Dubrovnik // Croatia
Feel Good Lost From Lake Plivtice we drove west over the coastal mountains and down to the Dalmatian seaside where the highway hugs the shore and fantastic views of the Adriatic Sea and nearby islands come rolling around with every point and harbor … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Beach, Europe, Home, Round The World Trip, War
05/15/06 // Blog Post from Lake Plitvice // Lake Plitvice // Croatia
Blue Milk It’s hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. … continue reading » Topics: Europe, Karst, Lakes, Mountains, Nature, River, Round The World Trip, War, Waterfalls
05/10/06 // Blog Post from Budapest Marriot // Budapest // Hungary
Refracted Light and Grace My first impressions of central Europe were from the plane coming in low over Budapest where I noted that the typical Soviet architectural blights. Every colonizing country seems to leave behind some token of itself, a scent, not unlike a … continue reading » Topics: Architecture, Europe, Holocaust, Monument, Negative Space, Round The World Trip
05/09/06 // Blog Post from Thet's House // London // United Kingdom
London Calling <p>&#8220;Why are you choosing to visit your friend now?&#8221;<br /> (shrug) (smile) “How much money are you bringing in?” “Money? On me? None. I was planning to use that ATM behind you.” “Do you have any bank statements showing how … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Art, Artists, Culture, Europe, Round The World Trip, Shakespeare

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