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Another misstep
Over the last two weeks I’ve tried coming up with different ways, none of them quite right, of setting out to tell the story of how I ended up where I am at this very moment, on an aerobed in my...
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Speaking of regrets…
(Old) Photo of the day: The saga of the assy Wow. I can’t believe a) I’m just now finding out I’ve had eight draft ‘photos of the day’ ready to go for the last year and never posted them, and b) how...
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The ghost of blogs past
Yes, it’s been well over a year since my last new blog post (in September I posted an old unpublished one I’d found, which was basically a glorified photo of the day). Yes, I survived my skin graft...
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And now for something completely different
I can hear you now. “What? A new blog post?” “It hasn’t even been a whole year since the last one!” Once in a while somebody (OK, my dad) asks me about my blog, and it used to be I’d say, “Yeah, I keep...
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My guest blogging stint on The Rude Pundit
August 19, 2011 As promised, today’s rant is cross-posted on The Rude Pundit‘s blog. This blog post is rated R for rude. Contains language some may find objectionable. You’ve been warned. Be afraid. Be...
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The Daily Outrage
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? —Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Politics Instructions for use: 1. Read headline and think to self, “And *you,* Matt Taibbi, of all people are shocked by...
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Reminder that things could always be worse
Leaked Cable: McCain Promised Qaddafi To Help Secure Military Equipment From U.S. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I can really use a reminder.
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The I of the Hurricane
One of the worsts parts about having to cancel my dinner plans* last night due to impending hurricane was the fact that I no longer had a pressing reason to clean my apartment. So I didn’t. Instead, I...
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No hurricane please, we’re New Yorkers
Woke up this morning—on the living-room couch, since that was the farthest I could get from the windows in my one-bedroom apartment—fan still going, to learn Irene had been downgraded. Quickly bored to...
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Photo of the day
Monetary graffiti Call me a cynic, but not only am I fairly sure Rachel no longer <3s Jim, but that she, too, assumed their love would be temporary—given that she put the year and all.
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Photos of the day
September 13, 2016 These are a few shots from my second day in Lisbon, which started with a 3.5-hour walking tour* and ended (with wine tasting . . . yay!) after I’d walked about 5 more hours. I...
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An Afternoon in Alfama
September 13, 2016 This may be my favorite of all the photos I took today. I didn’t even notice the multicolored clothespins until I saw the full-sized image on my computer. They add the perfect touch,...
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Photo of the Day
September 14, 2016 The Jerónimos Monastery in the parish of Belém in Lisbon.
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Portugal’s Very Own Magic Garden
September 15, 2016 Waterfall Lake, Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal I spent the better part of the afternoon today exploring the somewhat surreal, somewhat magical grounds of the Quinta da...
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On Fairy-Tale Castles and the Power of Mother Nature
September 16, 2016 On my second (and last) day in Sintra, I visited two extraordinary palaces: the brightly colored fairy-tale majesty that is the Palácio da Pena and the Palácio de Monserrate, an...
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PM in Porto
September 17, 2016 Spent a lovely afternoon and evening in the charming city of Porto (Don’t tell Lisbon, but I think I like it better.), taking waaaay too many photos. So in the interest of actually...
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Photos of the day
September 22, 2016 I don’t know about you, but I think the people who work at this shoe store are a bunch of pendants. Yes, that is a Pringles vending machine. Now you know.
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Photo of the Day
View from the rooftop of my hostel in Leiria, Portugal: Castelo de Leiria by night I arrived at my hostel in the town of Leiria at 11:15 on a Friday night to find that the ground floor doubles as a...
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Photos of the Day: Street Art in Porto
September 26, 2016 Graffiti. Portugal is full of it. But while the travel websites and guide books don’t seem to distinguish graffiti (i.e., tagging or just scrawled words) from street art, I do....
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Photos of the Day: Cacela Velha
October 1, 2016 Undeterred by what every person I asked in the town of Tavira (men in the tourism office and bus station, two reception staffers at my hostel) told me about it being “a LONG walk—two...
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