Yep. I juat put that into google trying to find some advice on what to do. Turns out, google isn't hip to the nuances of a cross-cultural partnership. Rats ( Read more... )

I realize that I haven't posted here for a long time, but I swear I'm not dead. Not even a little bit. In fact, I'm a student now so I actually use LiveJournal more than ever - papers to write, things to read and, you know, time doesn't just waste itself ( Read more... )

I am loving this blog post, "Guide to Istanbul Cliches" so hard. I also feel that it effectively absolves me of the need to ever read another travel 'narrative' about my city. Ever. Forever ( Read more... )

* At the Bob Dylan concert, prior to Mr. Dude actually coming out, they played a recording of someone reading On The Road. It was a pretty terrible reading. After about 20 minutes of that they started playing 50 Cent's magnum opus, "In Da Club." But they didn't bother to turn the reading track off, so they were both going at once. "In Da Club On ( Read more... )

On 2 May 2010 the New York Times started a project called "One Moment in Time." They asked readers to take one photograph at their location at 15:00 UTC. Now, they've plotted them all on a map of the earth. I'll give you a link but I won't be responsible for the amount of time you're about to lose.

I stumbled across a poem the other day from a book of slam poetry called "I Sing The Body Authentic" and when I read it, it was Kirk Lawrence reading it to me. He didn't write it, of course, but it's so Lawrencesque that I couldn't stop myself from posting it here.

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If anyone here loves me at all, buy me this.


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I was taking a lot of pictures today with the aim of doing A Day In My Life/Document a Day project, but around the middle of the day everything went downhill so fucking fast that I'm still not sure exactly what happened.

In the meantime, though, I rather like this.


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I realized earlier that I've never posted any pictures of my neighborhood. It's a peninsula that is incredible 8 months a year. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them, so I've stolen all these pictures from Google until the weather is nicer and I can take some myself. At any rate...Moda'ya hoş geldin! (Welcome to Moda!)


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