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i've discovered the secret to eternal happiness! it is a truly marvelous proposition that this text entry box is too narrow to contain.

just a few pictures of russia.

i really like how this shot came out. it's going on my wall when one day i have a wall. i took it during the one nice day of weather in murmansk while i was there. as you can see, semiprecious, it looks EXACTLY like jacksonville.

dear russia: you must chill. people here are either INSANELY rude or INSANELY friendly. writers like to contend that this is some kind of admirable trait of the russian spirit, but fuck that. it's just highschool. it's OMG BFF all over again ( Read more... )

i ate fried rabbit ( Read more... )

i've really tried to take pictures in prague, but it's not so easy because 1) EVERYTHING is picturesque. you walk past a newspaper vendor and look up and, hey! some 12th century bust of a three-headed dog. 2) EVERYONE is picturesquing. i've never seen so many cameras before. so i leave my camera in my pack most of the time ( Read more... )

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i spent an hour this afternoon with my legs crossed, sitting on a small, round pillow. my eyes were shut, and i was examining the little spots behind my eyelids, wondering "is this meditating? am i meditating right now? egg and cheese sandwich. CRAP, start over. okay, am i meditating now ( Read more... )

now i understand the advice about always getting as far out of town as possible before trying to hitch. leah dropped me off at mlk boulevard a little north of downtown jacksonville, and there i saw something very interesting. kind of a character study of horror and disgust in the faces of the metropolitans on their way to work in the morning. ( Read more... )

this post won't have the right texture if i don't at first explain that only part of my trip over the last week has been geographic. that part is easy to write about. what isn't easy to write about is the railroad spike that has been driven through my cynicism. or a gaping hole of despair opening up in my stomach. then being cauterized. then ( Read more... )