every time i see a story on a newsfeed with 'arkansas' in it a part of me dies.
thanks for continuing to make us look like morons, y'all!so this prompts two questions ( Read more... )

one way to make a bad day better ( Read more... )

how to bond with your favorite place in the world ( Read more... )

yesterday i braved the polish regional rail (my train had seen better decades, possibly centuries) to visit the most important pilgrimage site in poland, czestochowa (that's pronounced chin-stuh-ho-vuh), home of the black madonna and queen of poland. see:

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today began well. rosa was at the conference, so i went to explore the artsy bohemian neighborhood of santa teresa. took the old tram there, over the aqueduct (we went there last night...i hung over the side. today i sat). walked around, had some nice views, great public art at the escadaria selaron (stairs that an artist -- selaron -- has ( Read more... )

it's been quite the adventure...e and am dropped me at dulles and after many thunderstorms and delays and cancelled flights i was moved to the direct flight to rio. but enough of the boring stuff ( Read more... )

dear post office,
i am pretty sure i am not the first person you have ever encountered who is going to be out of the country for more than 30 days and would not like to have their mail accumulate in their box. there's no reason to be so unhelpful and sullen.
i'm just sayin'.
peace,
marc

Read the following passage from an academic work and guess what year it was written and what academic press printed the book:

"[Climate] differences have not been without their effect on the inhabitants. The Galicians are friendly and cheerful; the people of the meseta are dour, sullen, and charmless."

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some final statistics:
dissertation: 1
chapters: 7
pages: 257
footnotes: 585
lines: 7659
paragraphs: 1753
words: 86,507
characters: 444,300 (536,647 counting spaces)

...that's dr. _aurelius to you now!

+ three glasses of celebratory champagne on an empty stomach. now: yummy falafel!