January 2011
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1,095 Nights; 1,096 Days
I am preparing to leave Vietnam after three years of residence here. While in Asia I have been to nine countries, eaten over three thousand meals, backpacked through Italy, and become a teacher, a writer, and a filmmaker. Saigon, in no uncertain terms, has been my home and, as such, the source of everything that one finds associated. I can imagine that leaving it will not be unlike the process of...
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I would like to read Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run.
That is all.
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Stewart on the Arizona Shooting →
kateoplis:
“I do think it’s a worthwhile goal not to conflate our political opponents with enemies, if for no other reason to draw a better distinction between the manifestos of paranoid madmen and what passes for acceptable political and pundit speak. You know, it would be really nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn’t in anyway resemble how we actually talk to each other on TV.”
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An Excerpt from Bicycle Diaries - Boing Boing →
Found myself in Italy over the summer with Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne in one hand and Nick Cave’s Bunny Munroe in the other. Two of my favorite musicians with only enough room in my pack for one of them. I stuck with Cave’s shorter, “pulpier” piece due to my condition as backpacker, rail rider but it was not an easy decision. These excerpt from Byrne’s Diaries...
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Internet woe
My wireless router was murdered by a power surge last night. I’m on a mission to find a replacement and seek justice. Farewell old friend. We had some great times together.
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3D movies are fucking stupid.
Yes, even Avatar.