May 2012
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April 2012
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Route 66: Documenting a great notion
Among my favorite things, as a lover of both travel and creative journeys, is to speak with people embarking on paths that they are passionate about: the type of project that’s exciting and scary and life-changing, all rolled into one.
Just posted this interview with Simon Cantlon, indie documentary filmmaker, whose “The Motels of Route 66” is in the works.
The guy fills a...
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“Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?”
– Bumper sticker
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On my way to Spain: Part II - Under the volcano
London. Mid-April 2010.
Thumb twiddling time. Around the globe, airlines tried to regroup. The handful of alternate transport options suddenly pressed into service could not begin to keep pace with demand. Even so, just in case the skies cleared (and/or monkeys began to fly out of the Transport Minister’s arse), the airlines instructed us not to stray too far from our hotels.
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On my way to Spain, this happened...
April 2010: Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull throws a party. Everyone is massively impressed but the morning after is widely considered a bitch.
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Two years ago today, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano created havoc in the skies over Europe: stranding international air travelers all over the globe.
My own travel plans to Barcelona called for a quick change of planes at Heathrow....
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“Art is not a luxury. It is a physical and spiritual necessity for any sane...”
– Vanessa Redgrave, quoted in The Guardian
March 2012
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February 2012
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Faith
He was four years old when his father told him that every day, all day long, the Earth spins around on its axis. Like a top, he said.
Since it wasn’t story time — he and his father were visiting the Natural History museum — he understood that he was meant to believe this extraordinary bit of information.
As his father explained it, this motion of the Earth accounted for the passage of Day and...
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{interlude} Railway reverie
I didn’t realize that I missed her. But now she is only a couple hours away, and I look forward to seeing her in all her crazy glory.
She is afraid of the dark.
She snores like a woodchipper.
She will suddenly confide things like this: that someday if she needs time off work at the hospital, she may schedule herself a hemorrhoid operation.
She says, “A man who...
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{interlude} Billy and the Feng Shui
Billy came over to the house the other night.
Said he wanted to borrow some ice, then decided not to take a chance that it might all melt on his way home so he stayed on through an HBO documentary and spent the next few hours borrowing glassful after glassful of ice and pouring my single malt all over it while making disparaging (if apt) comments about some aspects of my home’s...
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Contents May Shift in Transit
Some people are simply born to it.
They come into the world inquisitive and cheerfully malcontent and they remain so. Outwardly unremarkable, inwardly they find themselves prey to restless yearnings.
They’re the ones who provoke shrugs, head shaking, and eye rolling among their family, friends, and employers. They’re the ones who stay up all night talking to people they’ve only just met and...
