5 June 2008
Hardly five days back from Port-au-Prince and I’m moving the one-quart plastic bag of liquids and aerosols from my rolling suitcase to my duffle bag and filling the rest of the space with clothes appropriate to the current Portland weather—a mild peak of 57 from a low of 52, intermittent rain. And when I return on Wednesday, I’ll have a mere 36 hours before I receive Eric for a two-week stay.
And this seems to be the prevailing pattern for 2008: travel somewhere new, host an old friend.
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Plays well with
Love, Politics, Music and Travel.
1 June 2008
Chris: “I love sailing, but some people say it’s a way of going nowhere slowly at great expense.”
Me: “I work for the federal government. I could get used to sailing.”
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Pegged as
Politics and Wit.
27 May 2008
Back from a second whirlwind weekend in New York in as many weeks, and there’s a veritable goon squad of deadlines bearing down in the next eleven hours before I leave for Port-au-Prince. Nevertheless, I have a new camera for the trip—93/75 with thundershowers, 6-megapixel sensor and 18-55mm Nikkor kit lens, and the general feeling […]
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Plays well with
Objects, Politics and Travel.
15 May 2008
Some people want to be dressed their best, laid in silk-lined boxes, covered in dirt, topped with stone. Some want to be frozen, preserved, to see a future that will reanimate the dead. Some want to be incinerated, returned to dust and inertness.
I think this is for me …
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Keeps the company of
Objects and Art.
28 April 2008
I’m back from An Event Apart New Orleans and after a good night’s sleep, much like Chicago before it, I am not only prepared to be a better web designer but inspired to be a better person.
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Photos, Politics, Design and Travel.
10 April 2008
While my visits to California aren’t rare, my two-week stay last winter has been the longest since I moved away, enough time to expand my itinerary beyond family and close friends to not only to visit with past acquaintances but, with some, to also superimpose physical, spatial relationships over evolving virtual relationships, adding dimensions of tone and motion to the plain text of emails. Enough time to not only gorge myself on the late-night fast food of my inner fat kid but to also pilgrimage to the Salk Institute, to deliver red velvet cake to the ailing, to dance at Harvelle’s on a Sunday night. To not only retrace a Los Angeles past but to discover the Los Angeles present.
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Millennials, Nostalgia, Music and Travel.
3 April 2008
No sooner after I finished repaying my undergraduate student loans did I receive the thick envelope from Georgetown—I’ll be starting work on my M.A. in Communications, Culture, and Technology in August.
Now the real debt servicing begins.
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It’s about
Nostalgia.
28 March 2008
Philippe Starck’s retirement announcement via AFP, via Kottke from Die Zeit. It ends: Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.
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Art and Media.
