Thursday, November 15, 2007

Potential

It is pissing down rain. Lucky for me I brought an umbrella.

Labels: city, NYC, travel

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

As seen on Oprah

As seen on Oprah, originally uploaded by Theorris.

I do recommend it, however. It does seem to work. I used to get sick
every time I flew long distances. I've taken AirBorne on the last few and have been ok. Funny how it reminds me of certain German vitamin drinks that are fizzy, but that's another story.

I don't like their selling point, however: "Created by a second grade teacher." I hated my second grade teacher. Mrs. Snakefield, as we called her, was, ahem, a bitch.

If you haven't figured it out, I'm traveling again. This time to NYC, my droogies. I have some photo expeditions planned. We'll see.

Labels: health, sucker, travel

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Thursday, November 08, 2007

I don't leave my heart any where, but I may leave my liver here

Ok that title is a very bad joke, particularly since I promised myself I would never make such a stupid topical reference to a city with a theme song, but it just struck me that there is an honor bar in the room. I kid. I kid. Actually I have a long day tomorrow.

Another question: eventhough I'm traveling on a publisher's dime, should I complain that my room smells like a very over-chlorinated swimming pool and that the air purifier was left in my room? I take it that the Hotel Adagio either has a mildew problem (quite likely for San Francisco's climate) or that the previous tenant smoked (despite the rather strenuous warning they give you at the desk about such miscreant behavior.)

I think I'm going to go out and see if I get mugged. Nah, San Francisco isn't that bad, and I'm a big guy: 6 foot 8, 280.

Labels: hotel, toxins, travel

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Hurry up and wait

So how far in advance should one arrive at an airport? I've been 2 hours early before and barely made the plane. I've been 2 hours early before and have had the joy of sitting around the airport for and hour and a half before boarding.

Thoughts?

Labels: airports, modernity, security, travel

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Travel

The box elder bug,
An unlikely commuter,
Flutters to the door.

Labels: haiku, out-of-town, poetry, travel

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Keen!

Now this is a keen idea: Flexcar or Zipcar. Something tells me, however, it is going to be a long time before they offer this service in SLC.

Labels: environmentalism, green, transportation, travel

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Monday, April 16, 2007

If you don't have anything nice to say....

So I've been out of town since Wednesday of last week at a conference. It was not that I didn't have Internet access nor that I was super-busy at said conference, but that I really found nothing interesting in the host city to comment upon. Everything I could think of ended up being a bitch, so I'll forgo all that just to say I was out of town and that is that. I might post some pictures.
Maybe.

Or maybe you want to read my bitching about city sterility, lack of humanity, no ATMs ANYWHERE, empty-headed planning, urban decay, pointlessness, unhappy race-relations, and an overall sense of urban banality that goes on, and on, and on?

Guess which city I was in, and win a prize of sheer exuberance. (No cheating those of you who know where I went.)

Labels: fear, loathing, revenge, travel

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Monday, March 19, 2007

"Nowhere you! Everywhere the electric!"

Woo hoo! Tomorrow I head for New York.

It has been some years since I was in the City.

I'll be tied up with professional commitments and I haven't planned a damn thing, but still: it is New York.

City of the small shoulder! Book reader of the world!

I'm not sure if Carl Sandburg ever wrote a poem about New York. I doubt it.

Maybe I'll skip everything and visit Paterson, New Jersey for the fuck of it.

The Silk City.

WCW.

WCW. Aww yeah.

Oh, I'll post pictures in the usual place, given that my mega-watt hotel supposedly has highspeed Internet access as a part of its "comforts."

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