These are adopted from my field notes: It’s 1am and ______ and I are on the way to John’s Express to pick up a pizza I ordered 10 min. earlier. They said they’re closing at 1am. I’m hungry. We’re going south on Broadway past Monument and the Hopkins folks are waving to us. I wave…
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While I was out, there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over a Sunreportthe fact that “since 2004, Baltimore has led the country with more than 30 percent of rape reports marked ‘unfounded’ by detectives, meaning police believed the victim was lying.” And though I applaud Bealefeld for his generally sensitive handling of this issue,…
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The cradle of democracy is safe. My work there is done. Ferry boat from Piraeus to Mytilene. The sea is indeed wine dark. The beach town of Skala Eresou (aka: Eressos). The little harbor. The beach in the morning. The Eressos Valley We stumbled across this guy making Traxana. 200 kilos of goats’ milk and…
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Why? Who wants to know? I gots my reasons.
From a man surveying the damage, as quoted in the Oakland Tribune, “Wow. And here I thought Oakland was crappy before.”
Happy 4th of July! Might I recommend you conduct a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence tonight? It’s become our tradition. And a good tradition it is. And the more drunk you are, the more you’ll capture the true spirit of our Founding Father (man, those boys could drink!). It’s good to remember what…
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