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Ficciones 05/24/08: My first hands on with Borges... Absolutely amazing. So far beyond what I've been reading lately (mainly non-fiction and some ...
Suttree 10/15/07: Though I do intend to get back to the Proust, I wound up one day with this novel in my ...
Guns, Germs, and Steel 10/15/07: One of the most original ideas I've come across in recent memory, erudite and extremely well written for a "popular" ...
The Dead Father 10/15/07: Barthelme is one of a kind, one of those love him or hate him soft of authors.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of… 09/09/07: A childhood survivor of Cambodia's Pol Pot regime, Loung Ung's memoir is rough and brutal but in the end hopeful ...
Campo Santo 09/09/07: Sebald at his best: Death, destruction and memory obsessed over and exhumed in the light art, literature and nature, and, ...
As I Lay Dying 09/09/07: "I decline to accept the end of man." -- William Faulker in a speech to accept the Nobel Prize of ...
Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds 05/26/06: “He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his ...
Midnight in a Perfect World 03/26/06: I lounged for a while in the shallows letting the small waves lapped over my back while I studied the ...
Pashupatinath 12/15/05: It was well past noon before I dragged myself out of the comforts of Thamel and caught a taxi to ...
Bury Your Dead 11/06/05: I feel I’ve been neglecting the site lately, but I haven’t really done much worth writing about. The last two ...
Farewell Mr. Hunter H Thompson 02/24/05: I'm sure everyone has heard by now that Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide this past weekend. Like many I am ...

Filler:

I wasn't quite sure what to do with this space... I thought maybe I would plant a little tree or something, but there's already a little tree just above here. Maybe a watering hole, some sort of saloon. I dunno. Still working on it.

Recent Writings

Thursday
July 3, 2008

Tiny Cities Made of Ash The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems …
Monday
June 30, 2008

You Can't Go Home Again The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, …
Thursday
June 26, 2008

Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of …
Saturday
June 7, 2008

In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
Responsibilty and Living Well Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips …

Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers -- it sounds like something McSweeney's would print, but no, it's The New Yorker. And unlike most New Yorker pieces this one ...
The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala: "Those who have ever received a case of Orchidaceæ from the Tropics, know full well that the opening of it is attended with the most ...
Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real): Nice Javascript library to cross fade any series of elements in a container element. This one uses JQuery and has by far the best browser ...