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Sam and Sofia Learn the World Despite My Moral Outrage

September 22, 2010

So Amy on Twitter pointed me to the most awesome thing ever. And I say, forget the kids. I want to get one of these babies in my mailbox every month and discover the world through adventure kits and STICKERS. Oh my God, stickers.

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The City that Doesn’t Sleep, but sure as hell sweats a lot

July 19, 2010

The city is gritty, dark, and hard. The subways rumble on and on. The rats scurry as the people overflow Onto the station and up to the neon show. Outsiders look up, locals look straight. The hawkers haggle, the hookers wait. The traffic rushes scornful of the streets Marred and littered with a million moving feet. And yet the congregations grow. Worldly masses turn and flow To money as Muslims do to Mecca. And pilgrims walk amidst the glimpses of ...

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Our Adventures in Los Angeles, starting with Mulholland Drive

May 26, 2010

My impressions of Hollywood and Los Angeles are framed mostly by the movie Mulholland Drive. The movie is a terrifying strand of subconsciousness that floats like a dream sequence and exposes Hollywood as dark, brash, and unforgiving but with millions of heatlamps where the moths gather between the darkness.

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Organic Strawberry Fields Forever. California, Part 2

May 18, 2010

We left San Francisco when it was cold.  It’s always cold in San Francisco. We took the Pacific Coast Highway all the way down to Los Angeles.  The Pacific Coast Highway is the most incredible road I’ve ever been on.  Because every time you hit a curve, you can see the Pacific Ocean on your right-hand side and you have mountains in the distance, and the whole way you’re thinking of a way to capture the ocean views in a ...

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What do rich Russians and egg incubation have to do with my weekend? Everything.

March 21, 2010

Source. Mr. B and I went to visit the fam in Philadelphia this weekend, as we often do.  During that time, Mr. B’s mom told us an amazing story about some of Mr. B’s second cousins, who are crazy rich in Russia because they made money during the chaos after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s [A Quick introduction to how Russians mostly became rich after the fall of the Soviet Union].  Mr. B’s mom regaled ...

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