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It's New Year's Eve, which I know since I stayed up till the end of December 30th to celebrate the dawning of the eve. More than the WHEN of things, however, how about how right now I'm a free man in a free land, this "free LAND" being the lavish French apartment my host family left to me upon leaving for their château in the Pyrénées, and the " ( Read more... )

In honor of my mom's birthday, I'm giving her the surprise present (surprise!) of honoring her request for pictures of me in Europe. I didn't take any of these. Thank you to my unnamed sources.

PARIS!


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had a bag of candy and a can of heineken for dinner. don't tell my parents.

[mood| Proud, though that's more the mood I tried to make Papa Harvey during my Danish sojourn ( Read more... )

i apologize to any hapless reader who stumbled upon my last post and either was wildly disappointed in the subject matter or now is deeply unsettled by the looming spectre of globalization. i'll make today's post pretty upfront, serving much the same purpose as how television commercials give our minds a break when the sitcom one-liners just get a ( Read more... )

Nous sommes chez le monde, or so says a rash of recent efforts to highlight and even deconstruct what's widely viewed as the inexorable road toward globalism. Here's my attempt to keep up with the flow of traffic ( Read more... )

i started working out again, which was probably a pretty unimpeachable decision given how big the world is and how much i've yet left unsurveyed, unconquered. of course, there is also the magnifying impetus toward strength in preparation for bonnaroo of june 2007. little danny birk and i will both be "big men on camp"grounds following our rigid ( Read more... )

october 19-22: amsterdam

i am returned from prague for going on 4 days now, but it will never get to 4, as i leave for amsterdam in about an hour. before i go, though, i thought i'd include here some of the more salient details of my trip to maybe spark some scandal and intrigue ("salient," not "salacious") and maybe increase my readership and audience participation in ( Read more... )