Archives for April 2014

Negotiate A Hostage Situation In Quebec

“You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I’m your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears” – Will Ferguson

Know How To Travel

“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail” – Marilyn vos Savant

They Seem To Have That Light In Australia

“It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame. Do you know how sometimes on very fine days the sun will shine with […]

I Should Not Leave The Country

“On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes” – Arthur Conan Doyle

The World At Large

“I like songs about drifters – books about the same – they both seem to make me feel a little less insane. Walked on off to another spot, I still haven’t gotten anywhere that I want. Did I want love? Did I need to know? Why does it always feel like I’m caught in an undertow?” – Modest Mouse (The World at Large)

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The Perfect Journey Is Never Finished

“The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore” – Rosita Forbes

The Pacific, Greatest Of Oceans

“The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville called it “the tide-beating heart of earth.” Covering more than a third of the planet’s surface–as much as the Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans combined–it’s the largest geographical feature in the world. Its awesome 165,384,000 square […]

Globalization By The Way Of McDonald’s

“Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here” – Raquel Cepeda

A Road Trip Was A Great Escape

“I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the day-to-day anxieties of playing, and it kept me from getting too lost in the tournament fun house with its courtesy cars, caterers, locker room attendants, and such — all amenities that create a […]

Three-Dimensional Details Of This Moment

“While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment – the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the challenge of getting photographs of the monkeys, my immature urge to make the driver wait even longer because he was […]