April 2009
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WatchBourbon Street, New Orleans. By a wide margin, the silliest street I have ever walked down.
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WatchOne of the most striking sights we’ve seen on the trip — hundreds of thousands of Mexican freetail bats swarming out of Congress Bridge in Austin, TX.
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WatchOn account of a busted clutch, we’ve spent the last three days getting very well acquainted with a few small southwestern towns. The prettiest and emptiest of these was Lordsburg, NM, population 3,379. El Charro, the town’s Mexican restaurant, lies on the train tracks, a mile’s walk from our motel. As we crossed the tracks in the cool New Mexico heat, the Sunset Limited pulled...
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WatchLisa dances in front of a speaker disguised as a rock. Desert Diamond Casino, Tucson, Arizona.
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WatchThe Pacific Ocean, somewhere on Highway 1, California.
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WatchPiano player on the Venice Beach boardwalk.
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“Most hostages survived their ordeal, Fletcher said, although relationships,...”
– Annals of Human Rights: Hellhole
I’ve been meaning to post this incredible New Yorker piece for awhile — it presents a convincing argument that prolonged solitary confinement constitutes torture. Considering that we keep tens of thousands of prisoners in solitary in supermax prisons,...
“I hit the stage, not knowing what I would say first till the second i put the...”
– From Louis C.K.’s USO tour blog. Someday, I would like to do a show like this.
Gulp.
A few weeks ago, I was asked by Marie Claire Magazine to go on a “twitter date” with one their writers. In a little over an hour, we’ll be meeting and live-tweeting the whole . I expect it to be a tremendous success / complete trainwreck. Get yourself a bowl of popcorn, snuggle up, and cringe along with us here or by following the #mcdate Twitter tag.
