I’m going to tell you a story today that you think you know but you don’t. And because you think you know it, you’re going to have to resist the urge to let your mind race ahead and tell you that there’s nothing new here to think about. In the year 2003, when all of us were a lot younger and in a time when … Continue reading Maya He
Wow! It was a busy week here in Lake Wobegon, er, I mean Cluj-Napoca, known far and wide to its inhabitants as Unicorn City. There was a little old election in those United States of America and because everyone and their brother knows I’m an American who speaks Romanian, I spent a good deal of time talking to the media. Sad to say that I … Continue reading Media Extrabbleganza
Many moons ago, when the wind blew sweeter and I was just a child, it was a time before the internet had been created. And there existed a wondrous and shiny marvel that would arrive in your home with which you could happily while away the hours. They exist today and are called by the same name but in a simpler era when television and … Continue reading The Ballad of the J. Crew Catalog
Following in the footsteps of Trouble at the Tropeycabana I present yet another common trope you will find here in Romania Back in the days of Soviet Russia, visitors never failed to comment on the ubiquitous дежурная, what Romanians would call femeia de serviciu, the middle-aged or older woman who worked on every floor of a hotel or apartment bloc, whose job it was to … Continue reading The Picayune Rule Enforcer
The following is a rough transcript from a recording of a private performance given on October 18, 2012 at [redacted] in Romania. So of course, yes, a lot of people always ask me, hey Sam, why do you live here? And of course I’m expecting this question so I throw out the easy answers, blah, blah, chicks are hot, nice mountains, blah, blah whatever. You … Continue reading Fuck you, Army!
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