With all due apologies to Longfellow, hardly a person is now alive who remembers that day in 1977 before the movie “Star Wars” was first shown in theaters. Quite simply put, the studio bosses and everyone else expected it to be a moderately successful picture for children, at least enough to recoup the cost overruns that had crept in when the narcissistic director had insisted … Continue reading Trouble at the Tropeycabana
It’s very rare that people pay me for my predictions (even today few people are willing to have their ears licked by snakes) but if someone were to ask me how to find a peaceful place on earth amongst the teeming masses of humanity, I’d give them a simple metric. Find a place where people ride unicycles. The other day here in Unicorn City, where … Continue reading A Land Where Unicycles Bloom
As I just wrote about, every morning there’s like a little jukebox that fires off in my head (which I suspect is related somewhat to la main étrangère). Usually the jukebox plays more recent stuff but today it came up with a real old one from the late 1970’s: Thanks to the magic of YouTube and other websites, nearly everything that has ever been broadcast … Continue reading The people that you meet each day
Every morning when I wake up, I follow a little ritual. The alarm sounds and my very first thought is, “Holy shit, where am I?” Yeah I know that’s a little odd but I guess I’ve lived in a lot of places so it happens even when I’m at home. The second thing that happens is that I get out of bed and then there’s … Continue reading Quick, Henry, the Flit!
Today I had a very interesting conversation with a young man from the nation of Bangladesh, which reminded me of a post I wrote recently (there’s an episode filmed in Dakka), which reminded me of another post I wrote a long time ago, which reminded me of several conversations I had recently with some veteran global travelers (some of whom make Magellan look like a … Continue reading The Secret to Happiness
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