Monthly Archives: June 2015

Traveling with the not-so-innocents abroad

It amazes me, just how integrally weak the modern first-world traveller really is. When Mark Twain traveled past these alkalai lakes, traversing Mormon territory and negotiating the vast expanses of sprawling, quasi-volcanic spreads  that sometimes remind one of the Badlands, … Continue reading

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Vlog: ahhh, latitude. . .

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Dear Idaho. I am moving here because Sammy Hagar can drive his car like he wants to.

One foot on the brake, and one on the gas HUH!    I can’t believe it. Thirty-two feet inside the state of Idaho, and I might as well be on the German Audobahn. Sure. I might wreck. But my scene-of-carnage … Continue reading

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Listening while driving

  

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 Bieber? 

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On the road 

and supposedly the GPS/SIRI/sextant//micrometer and T-square thingees on the iPhone are accurate. Or we’re going to wind up in Istanbul.

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Blogging from the road tomorrow 

So tomorrow, yours truly will be riding side-saddle in a rent-a-car, headed to Boise, Idaho. That means that blogging will maintain the usual, sub-standard, second-string level of deplorability it always has.  

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If you’re discussing electrolytes without knowing what they are, please sit down. It’s quiet time for you.

I’ve no idea what kind of odd, preternatural hallucinatory relfex Gatorade has cooked into their lime green gulps, but somebody over there is doing a great job with their Kenobian, “these are not the droids you are looking for” mind-meld … Continue reading

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Pointless lightning commentary

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Reading: The Terrible Speed of Mercy. A spiritual biography of Flannery O’Connor

I’m just going to have to admit that this woman is easily as fascinating as her work. I’m barely into the third chapter, and it becomes obvious that her awareness of the human condition was extraordinary. But the way she … Continue reading

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