I’ve realized over the years that I keep writing about gypsies, a race of people that few “outsiders” ever want to bother to understand. The gypsies are just there, usually bothersome, and the most compassionate outsiders just want them to “integrate” and be like everyone else. One of the reasons they won’t “be like everyone else” is precisely because they have so many of their … Continue reading Word of the Day: Stabor
I’m a big fan of Twitter and the awesomest local news producer “Stiri de Cluj” bleeps across my timeline when something happens. Holy shit a bridge collapsed! A building blew up on the first cold day of the year And many, many more like that. And every time you know that it’s not terrorism, it’s just incompetence :) #romanialoveya #shineonyoucrazydiamond Continue reading Two Men Working Four Men Watching
Well life has been pretty sweet to me and thought I’d take a little break and tell ya about it. This will be the cover of the book I just finished writing, which I had an enormous amount of fun writing. It’s pretty awesome :) One day people are going to ask me how I wrote it so I’m putting it down here for posterity … Continue reading The Colony
Me: Hey, what’s up? Person: You have an awesome life. How can I write books like you? Me: I’d tell you the answer but people say I’m wordy so I made up some picture cards. Person: Hey Sam, how long does it take to write a book? Me: Funny you should ask! The girls like it when you tell ’em that you’re fast ;) GOOD … Continue reading Hey Sam, I want to write a book
Over the years I’ve gone back and forth over the comment section on this website. Most of the time it drives me nuts, knowing as I do that the average statistic is that 1 reader in a thousand writes a comment, the vast majority of people just reading the stuff on here, which if comments are included then adds a strong statistical bias to what’s … Continue reading Nu-i pust
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