December 4, 2009 at 9:39am #
December 3, 2009 at 9:41am #
December 2, 2009 at 10:55pm #
"Between Botero and Giacometti, the world finds its way,” she said. “We still want heavenly people in a heavenly light. It’s the paradise of the image."
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This was, obviously, said by a French person.
December 2, 2009 at 2:29pm #
December 2, 2009 at 10:54am #
"Here they had been killing themselves for three months preparing the hotel for its grand opening and now some unwashed, drunken journalist was going to snack on the fruits of their labor while they returned to their crappy efficiency apartments, with fold-out beds and no A/C, located next to the city’s garbage incinerator. Or so I imagined it."
December 2, 2009 at 9:43am #
"People usually just acknowledge the party with something like, “Kinou wa otsukare sama desu,” which means, approximately, “Good work yesterday.” This is often said slowly, in a gravely voice, with half-open eyelids and a hand held against one’s forehead"
December 1, 2009 at 10:30pm #
December 1, 2009 at 10:24pm #
File under: Things I like the sound of
I know that I’m like a kabillion years older than you, and we’re thousands of miles apart, but can I please have 10,000 of your travel babies?
December 1, 2009 at 4:53pm #
"It’s an unspoken rule that, if you must converse at all in museums, it should be in hushed tones."
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Considering the author, I thought the next line would be, “Bollocks!” Sadly, it wasn’t.
Apparently we’re to be silently reverent in front of art — all art, good, bad or otherwise — and gasp in awe without thinking — and talking — about it. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
December 1, 2009 at 2:12pm #
"Can any of our readers supply me with an explanation of what this is all about? Why do people engage in geocaching? And in what way is it related to travel? I express thanks in advance."
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Can Someone Explain to Me the Purpose of Geocaching?
What if — in December 2012 presumably! — it turns out that Arthur Frommer’s just been jerking us around for sport this whole time?
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