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hungarian product bonanza 3 Jul 2009 | 12:10 am
Új! (pronounced "ooh-ee") = New! Cold cherry soup. I tried this stuff years ago when my beloved Hungarian ex-roommate Olga whipped some up in Hong Kong. No Hungarian model ever leaves home without a ...
my place in the old world 1 Jul 2009 | 07:01 pm
I may have slept too long on composing this entry: my Euro vacation is over and I'm back in Albuquerque; so much has happened between then/there and now/here that I feel like I'm trying to write about...
fault linez 23 Jun 2009 | 10:33 pm
I always scold myself on the kinda-rare occasions that I buy emergency socks or underwear instead of doing laundry: like, how wasteful and disorganized. How contemptible! But oops, life got so entropi...
comment solicitation (written in haste!) 15 Jun 2009 | 07:05 pm
Vienna was not really part of the plan, but I ended up here on a layover, awaiting a train to Budapest tomorrow morning. Arrived after midnight and just got back from a long walk around: maybe my bloo...
forest crunk 14 Jun 2009 | 09:46 am
Black Forest Folk. German highways don't just look immaculate when compared to the Bud can-strewn Adopt-a-Highways of the States and the styrofoam/cig butt/dead body/tea bottle graveyard roadsides of...
quik pix von Deutschland 12 Jun 2009 | 07:48 am
Gasthaus in Bad Bodendorf: restaurant, hotel, one-lane indoor bowling alley, time warp: 1982: A very good year for bowling. Nobody bowled, but I knew I would've won. Eradicator! Spargelsuppe: cream...
mein Lieblingsgemüse 10 Jun 2009 | 10:24 am
Hey dudes. As of today, I'm on Euro vacation: warm greetings from the Continent. I had a li'l layover this afternoon in the World's Second-Worst Airport (London Heathrow), just long enough to flip th...
watermelon mt. 6 Jun 2009 | 03:29 pm
I packed up and left Hong Kong about a week ago. It was the least frantic packing-up-and-leaving situation I've enjoyed in a long while: I organized my stuff more than an hour before I had to leave fo...
unrelenting torrent of pics from Taipei: shopping edition 17 May 2009 | 07:35 pm
Frequently asked question: Did you buy that thing? Answer: Usually, no. I've been traveling for so long that my acquisitive impulse has been crushed like a hideous Taiwanese bead sculpture in an overs...
it was a strange lookin mountain 14 May 2009 | 03:40 pm
Q: Do I have more pics and shit from Taiwan? A: On my last day in Taipei, I took the subway to the northern outskirts of the city, where the 'burbs give way to mountains. At the subway station, most ...
