17
May
18
Mar
I was eating dinner on the wrong river. The boat chugged quietly in the twilight as a waiter brought the soup and poured the wine. The silhouettes of palm trees were dissolving into darkness after exploding out of a carmine sunset.
Hippos snorted as we approached and, at lulls in the conversation, I could hear [...]
13
Jan
The Art of Travel is not your usual travel program.
Rather than suggesting places where people should take their next holiday or whetting their appetites with visions of exotic locations, it offers a philosophical look at how and why we travel.
In the new Australian Broadcasting Corpration DVD, English philosopher and writer Alain De Botton, known for [...]
18
Dec
When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the fashion-damaged, oddball artsiness of the late-1970s underground. To me, those longhaired beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about fairy-goddess devil women, were old hat. Stoner music, yuk.
In college, I took [...]
18
Dec
When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the fashion-damaged, oddball artsiness of the late-1970s underground. To me, those longhaired beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about fairy-goddess devil women, were old hat. Stoner music, yuk.
In college, I took [...]
18
Dec
When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the fashion-damaged, oddball artsiness of the late-1970s underground. To me, those longhaired beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about fairy-goddess devil women, were old hat. Stoner music, yuk.
In college, I took up [...]
18
Dec
When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the fashion-damaged, oddball artsiness of the late-1970s underground. To me, those longhaired beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about fairy-goddess devil women, were old hat. Stoner music, yuk.
In college, I took up [...]
18
Dec
When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the fashion-damaged, oddball artsiness of the late-1970s underground. To me, those longhaired beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about fairy-goddess devil women, were old hat. Stoner music, yuk.
In college, I took up [...]
18
Dec
When I was in high school, I hated Led Zeppelin. I was a punk. I was in love with the fashion-damaged, oddball artsiness of the late-1970s underground. To me, those longhaired beasts in Zeppelin, with their extended guitar solos and songs about fairy-goddess devil women, were old hat. Stoner music, yuk.
In college, I took up [...]