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Blog Archives
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04/02/08
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Blog Post from
San Juan Del Sur // San Juan Del Sur // Nicaragua
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Return to the Sea
Rivas was hot, dusty and filled with touts clamoring to shove you a cab bound for just about anywhere but Rivas itself. Not being the sort of tourists that like to disappoint a determined tout, we ended up in one …
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Topics:
Beach,
Nicaragua,
Sunsets
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03/30/08
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Blog Post from
Parque Colon // Granada // Nicaragua
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Ring The Bells
We landed in Managua about eight in the evening, walked outside the airport and smoked a cigarette (I know, terrible, I started smoking again), surveying the taxi drivers all clamoring for jacked up fares from the new arrivals. Eventually we …
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Topics:
Architecture,
Church,
Granada,
Nicaragua
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03/18/08
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Blog Post from
Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
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Once Upon a School
Dave Eggers gave a fantastic talk at this year’s TED conference about his 826 Valencia project, an after-school reading/writing program, which, as you may recall, my friend Lee volunteers at. But the real point of Eggers’ talk was to show …
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Topics:
Charity,
Children
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01/31/08
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Blog Post from
Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
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A Lost Theory
Since tonight is the season premiere of Lost I’d like offer a small theory I haven’t seen elsewhere. As fans of the show know, Lost is full of mysteries and one of the mysteries is who is on the boat …
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Topics:
Lost,
Television,
Theories
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01/01/08
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Blog Post from
Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
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New Year’s Day
I have at various times been accused of harboring a certain amount of cynicism (or realism, depending on the point of view of the person leveling such accusations), something I continue to deny. However, there are a few notable moments …
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Topics:
Holidays,
Photos
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12/25/07
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Blog Post from
foothills condo // Tucson // Arizona
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas my internet friends and a happy holiday season to those that celebrate other holidays. I’m spending my Christmas in a place where people string lights around Saguaro cacti, which somehow doesn’t put me in much of a Christmas …
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Topics:
Holidays
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11/14/07
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Blog Post from
Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
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Fall
The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it’s Fall [1], we’re also in the middle of a prolonged drought — this year being one of the worst — but this year …
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Topics:
Autumn,
Fall,
Nature
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07/23/07
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Blog Post from
White's Cove // Catalina Island // California
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On The Other Ocean
Consider for a moment if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left. Imagine how this would complicate seemingly ordinary activities — like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet …
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Topics:
Nature,
Sailing
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06/17/07
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Blog Post from
Heather's House // Brooklyn // New York
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Being There
Myrtle Beach does not exist. Myrtle Beach is in fact a copy of a place that does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf …
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Topics:
Airports,
Americans,
Beach,
Philosophy,
Tourism,
Travel
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06/14/07
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Blog Post from
Corrinne's Apartment // Charleston // South Carolina
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Sailing Through
It was the middle of the afternoon, we having settled in to watch a bit of the Blues Brothers — afternoon films being my favorite form of procrastination — when, just after Belushi remarks that the modern American mall “has …
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Topics:
Beach,
Charleston,
Clouds,
Sailing,
Storms
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03/01/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove
Earlier today I was driving up Santa Monica Blvd, stuck in traffic actually, more like parked on Santa Monica Blvd, staring up a very strange cloud that had been hanging over the west side all afternoon looking a bit like …
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Topics:
Clouds,
Friends,
Goodbyes
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02/03/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Everything All The Time
“We’ll collect the moments one by oneI guess that’s how the future’s done” — Leslie Fiest A while back a friend of mine who I hadn’t spoken to in quite a while rang me up. At some point we got …
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Topics:
Beauty,
Culture,
Friends,
Memory,
Reflecting
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01/31/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Catologue Raisonne
Jeffrey Toobin, a legal columnist over at the New Yorker, has written a piece about Google’s book scanning project and the legal challenges it faces. In a nutshell, two lawsuits are threatening the Google Book Search project, one is from …
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Topics:
Books,
Copyright,
Writing
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01/13/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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Terminal part two
The desert is a hot wind at the gas station, something passing through and to be passed through, or a sunny retreat from cold wind billowing off northern lakes or an endless playground of sunshine, golf and hotel pools. Some …
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Topics:
Deserts,
Motion,
Mountains,
River,
Sand,
Sunsets
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01/11/07
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Blog Post from
Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
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The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions
“And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall …
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Topics:
Authors,
Beauty,
Culture,
Eulogy,
Mysticism,
Philosophy