“I am so awake,” Ali says into the darkness. Me too. Late night talk ensues: this weekend marks the halfway point {week 20 of 40} of our time here and as such, the mind turns to evaluate how we’ve been doing thus far.
I had many fantasies about nine! whole! months! to do whatever it [...]
How a lady feels after an uncharacteristic night of Blaufränkisch… The Medicean Venus, in her case of rosewood and 200 year old warbly Venetian glass, looks something like Snow White waiting for her transplant.…
Saturday began at the Naschmarkt, a produce and specialty food market along the Wien river that has been around since the 16th [...]
I believe sleeping twelve hours and getting up at two constitutes vacance.
Ali woke to an omelet and a salad of strawberries, orange, and mint (pilfered from last nights Vietnamese). I love any excuse to snarf the butter here, which is unfathomably delish and nothing like home.
We hightailed it to the south east edge of town, [...]
McSweeney’s hosted a contest to celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences. The contest: “Submit your own convergence—an unlikely, striking pair of images, along with a paragraph or three exploring the deeper resonances.”
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This pairing of flea-market photographs has hung above my desk for as long as I can remember. [...]