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Blog Archives
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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
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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
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