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Blog Archives
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12/25/06
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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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 …
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Topics:
Artists,
Bands,
Beauty,
Eulogy,
Music,
Soul
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12/25/06
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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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 …
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Topics:
News
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11/26/06
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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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 …
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Topics:
Childred,
Deserts,
Motion,
Mountains,
River,
Sand
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06/09/06
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Blog Post from
Esperanta Cafe // Manhattan // New York
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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 …
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Topics:
Americans,
Axis Wobbles,
Home,
Round The World Trip,
Travel
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06/06/06
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Blog Post from
Paris Hostel // Paris // France
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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 …
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Topics:
Axis Wobbles,
Europe,
Film,
Goodbyes,
Proust,
Round The World Trip
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05/28/06
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Blog Post from
Hotel, Vienna // Vienna // Austria
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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 …
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Topics:
Art,
Artists,
Dreams,
Europe,
History,
Museum,
Round The World Trip,
War
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05/27/06
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Blog Post from
Hotel, Vienna // Vienna // Austria
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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 …
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Topics:
Art,
Artists,
Beauty,
Europe,
Museum,
Round The World Trip
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05/26/06
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Blog Post from
Prague // Prague // Czech Republic
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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 …
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Topics:
Architecture,
Death,
Europe,
Holocaust,
Human Rights,
Memory,
Round The World Trip,
War
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05/25/06
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Blog Post from
Cesky Krumlov // Cesky Krumlov // Czech Republic
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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 …
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Topics:
Art,
Artists,
Beauty,
Europe,
Museum,
Round The World Trip
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05/22/06
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Blog Post from
Hotel, Bled // Bled // Slovenia
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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 …
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Topics:
Butterflies,
Children,
Europe,
Flowers,
Memory,
Mountains,
Round The World Trip,
War
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05/19/06
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Blog Post from
Downtown Ljubljana // Ljubljana // Slovenia
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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 …
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Topics:
Archaeology,
Europe,
Ghosts,
Memory,
Round The World Trip,
Writing
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05/17/06
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Blog Post from
Hotel Dubrovnik // Dubrovnik // Croatia
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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 …
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Topics:
Americans,
Beach,
Europe,
Home,
Round The World Trip,
War
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05/15/06
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Blog Post from
Lake Plitvice // Lake Plitvice // Croatia
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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. …
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Topics:
Europe,
Karst,
Lakes,
Mountains,
Nature,
River,
Round The World Trip,
War,
Waterfalls
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05/10/06
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Blog Post from
Budapest Marriot // Budapest // Hungary
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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 …
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Topics:
Architecture,
Europe,
Holocaust,
Monument,
Negative Space,
Round The World Trip
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05/09/06
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Blog Post from
Thet's House // London // United Kingdom
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London Calling
<p>“Why are you choosing to visit your friend now?”<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 …
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Topics:
Americans,
Art,
Artists,
Culture,
Europe,
Round The World Trip,
Shakespeare