Four hours later |
Michael and I went to the memorial service at Ground Zero this morning. It was a beautiful, clear, crisp morning. The weather was nearly identical to September 11, 2001, but colder.
There were lots ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:13:00 GMT |
sad.com |
Sometimes, I would be kind of amsomniac and would just sit in front of the computer, surfing the internet until past 3am. I would read cnn.com; nytimes.com; latimes.com; espn.com; theonion.com/a...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:11:00 GMT |
Romulus and Remus and the She-Wolf and THAT GUY |
First off, let us all remove our hats and have a moment in silence in honor of Zinedine Zidane. There may be cooler ways to end one of the greatest careers in sporting history than headbutting somebo...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:30:00 GMT |
The Relativity of Memory |
Memory is one of the most fascinating subjects on earth. I think most people underappreciate how fundamental it is to our being. For the most part, it is our being. You are your memo...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 09:46:00 GMT |
Expect the Unexpected .1 |
I just wrote a long, well-written and (admittedly) hilarious account of yesterday afternoon and evening, all along the theme of "expect the unexpected". And then, once I had finished, I tried to...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:09:00 GMT |
Peter Boyle is so hot right now |
I saw a woman on the street the other day who had a head of hair EXACTLY like this guy:
And she was strutting around London, as if nothing at all was amiss. And I looked at this...
Posted by on Tue, 23 May 2006 02:28:00 GMT |
Correction |
Lest I have any friends/readers who speak siSwati, the language of the Swazi people:
In my last blog, I referred to the traditional healer as a "sabonga". What I meant to say was "sangoma."
When...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 21:52:00 GMT |
On top of Swaziland, all covered in pap |
I'm in Swaziland now. Yesterday I went around the marketplace in Manzini (the largest town), had a traditional breakfast there (a porridge made from fermented sorghum), and then spent the rest of the...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 01:20:00 GMT |
Double-serving Zambian friends |
Last Saturday, after the booze cruise, I met these two local guys in the hostel bar who work as guides at a nearby resort. Their names were Paluko and Mailos, and we got along great. We cl...
Posted by on Fri, 05 May 2006 01:04:00 GMT |
A small world, filled with In 'N Outs and crocodiles |
About two months ago, a professor from the University of Washington medical school was on a rafting trip on the Zambezi River, which flows between Zambia, Zimbabwe, and I think Botswana and S.A. too.&...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 00:06:00 GMT |
