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- // Blog Post from Rue de Archives // Paris // France
- Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine Well it’s my last night here in Paris and I’ve chosen to return to the best restaurant we’ve been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant around the corner from Laura’s apartment here in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Rue de Archives // Paris // France
- Bury Your Dead I feel I’ve been neglecting the site lately, but I haven’t really done much worth writing about. The last two days I’ve been inside working on a new project. For those of you wondering how I afford this trip, well that’s how, I stop doing fun things, lock the door and write or develop websites as the case maybe. And … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Rue de Archives // Paris // France
- The Houses We Live In I’ve been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill’s dad said to me before I left. I’m paraphrasing here since I don’t remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of “people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently.” Mr. Bill is widely traveled from his time in the Air Force … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Rue de Archives // Paris // France
- Sainte Chapelle I feel strangely like I live here. This feeling stems partly of course from the fact that I’m staying in an apartment rather than a hotel. But add to that last night’s dinner with Laura’s friend Justine (We had wonderful time thank you Justine). And couple that with Laura being sick and it all adds up to a feeling of … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Rue de Archives // Paris // France
- Living in a Railway Car I’m in France. It still doesn’t quite seem real. But I’m here, staying with L.S. in the Marais (a district in Paris). L.S. have what must be the smallest apartment ever made. I used to stay in a very small apartment in the Village off 6th avenue which I thought was the smallest apartment ever made. But no. This French … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
- Twenty More Minutes to Go Well it’s the night before I leave. I just got done pacing around the driveway of my parents house smoking cigarettes… nervously? Excitedly? Restlessly? A bit of all of those I suppose. Across the street from the house I grew up in (which my parents still live in, wonderfully quaint isn’t it?) there is a rather large park. Actually, it … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- The New Luddites It might just be what I happen to read, but the big topic of late on this here internet seems to the Author’s Guild lawsuit against Google. For those that haven’t heard, the Author’s Guild has brought a class action lawsuit against Google to try and stop Google from indexing scanned books. I am a writer and I make about … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Dover Drive // Newport Beach // California
- Tips and Resources okay I promised when I got back I would update this to fit with what I learned. So here we go… everything new is in red When I started planning for this trip I had no idea the volume of research it would entail. Every website of helpful information that I found led to ten more things I knew nothing … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- One Nation Under a Groove the need/ these closed-in days/ to move before you/ smooth-draped/ and color-elated/ in a favorable wind — Niedecker The sky is falling again. The man outside the liquor store seems unconcerned. The sky seems to fall a good bit. Perhaps the man didn’t notice. Perhaps the sky has fallen too many times now. Perhaps it’s been falling for quite some … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- Farewell Mr. Hunter H Thompson I’m sure everyone has heard by now that Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide this past weekend. Like many I am saddened by Thompson’s decision to take his own life. I don’t for a moment pretend to understand why he did it, but after thinking about it for a few days I have decided that, despite the loss for the rest … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- The Art of the Essay On the meridian of time there is no justice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and justice— H. Miller Paul Graham recently published an essay about the essay, which, though I generally reserve this spot for more programmatic oriented musings, bears some relevance since I do tend to write essays myself. What’s more, Paul Graham is … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- David Foster Wallace on Infinity I’ve been reading David Foster Wallace’s new book1 Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity for a few days now and I’m happy to report that it’s everything you would expect from the author of Infinite Jest. And I mean that in the best way possible. Wallace tends to provoke strong sentiments among readers. As my friend Mike put … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- Take Me To Your Leader II In the last article, I made the case that as fans of certain musicians we owe it to them to purchase their records rather than download them. And I made it more rationally than the RIAA will ever do because I am not a raving lunatic. At least most of the time I’m not. There have been a couple incidents … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- Farewell Mr. Cash farewell mr. cash. sunday mornings won’t be the same without you. continue reading »
- // Blog Post from 28 Graves Ave // Northampton // Massachesetts
- Take Me To Your Leader Before I get started, I have several sort of general purpose warnings for the casual reader: first, while I have downloaded some music in my day, I am not regular user of file sharing networks. Second, before you think this makes me some upstanding citizen let me add that I have copied a fair number of cds in my day. … continue reading »
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- architecture 7
- asia 40
- beach 7
- europe 16
- friends 7
- goodbyes 9
- round the world trip 58
- war 7
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Luxagraf is an experiment in travel writing — highly subjective, non-linear and a bit more random than most travel writing, but hopefully you'll like that. If not, there are plenty of glossy magazines out there to satisfy you.
I didn't start out to be a travel writer, I was writing and happened to do some traveling. The results are what you see here. Along the way I've discovered that travel writing is one of the only honest forms of non-fiction. That's what luxagraf is about — the unvarnished, sometimes ugly, truth of travel, told by someone just like you.
For smaller, snack-size stuff, not necessarily about travel, head over to the new snacks section where I record my travels around the web.