I’ve been operating under the conceit for the last few weeks that I’ll just save up all those ideas for blogging that I never got around to and just file them in—at some day in the near future offering an unlimited stretch of free time,.
Topics: Berlin, Kreuzberg, Life, observation, Street, subway, weird

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Iggy Pop is not stupid and he’s not poor and he’s not not-famous. So, I’m still not sure why I had to be confronted with this advertisement at Gatwick Airport a few weeks ago. I mean: COME ON, GUY! At least when Bob Dylan did the ad for.
Topics: advertising, airport, Art, Capitalism, Downer, gatwick, iggy, Music, photography, Punk, UK

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I normally don’t post a lot of singer-songwriter stuff here but these two pieces have been in somewhat steady rotation at the old domicile. Rhett Miller used to sing for a much-loved Texas cowpunk band called the Old 97s (yes, named after the...
Topics: Berlin, dfw, London, Music, singer-songwriter, texas, tuna, UK

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I should confess that I’ve read a lot of David Foster Wallace, but I’ve never completed the gargantuan “Infinite Jest,” his quote unquote magnum opus and legitimate shot at the Great American Novel. I’ve read nearly all his..
Topics: books, dfw, ij, Literature, reading, twitter

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Here I sit looking out the window of the 22th flood of a massive upscale apartment complex in the Chaoyang district of Beijing contemplating things in the way you do when looking out a window. This view differs from the same view I saw early this...
Topics: beijing, business, Capitalism, China, Food, Travel

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