July 4—tick tick, boom boom
July 05, 2010
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Dakota, The Way We Live Now
Happy bday, USA.
I celebrated by standing alone (don’t ask) for three hours watching a hometown parade in a town that was not my hometown. The barrier to entry for this particular parade was charmingly low—if you owned a motor vehicle, preferably some kind of large truck, and/or could reliably...
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My states! My poor states!
April 04, 2009
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Dakota
Okay, first, you may have seen that Mt. Redoubt erupted and has pretty much kept on erupting since March 22. We flew right beside Redoubt – it’s on the same peninsula as where we went bear viewing.
In fact, while we were taking our scary/thrilling ride over there, L., the broken crazy bearish...
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Coincidences 1 & 2
February 18, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, The Home Front
* How cool is this? The superfabulous Peabody Essex Museum, which I have written about elsewhere, is sponsoring a talk on “Keeping the fire in the dark moon times.” Guess which three dark-moon states, out of the 50, they’ve chosen to highlight? Massachusetts. Alaska. Hawaii. My states, all.
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Blue (Porno!) Hawaii
January 29, 2008
Filed in: Hawaii
In the Times’ lead travel article this weekend, Hawaii on a Dime, Matt Gross writes a few pithy lines that sum up perfectly my feelings about Hawaii:
Hawaii is easy, Hawaii has nothing to hide. Hawaii is, touristically speaking, pornographic in its single-minded baring of its assets.
Yes,...
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How It Will All End
July 30, 2007
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Dakota
So here’s the plan: Kansas. Alaska. Hawaii. The extreme ends and the smack middle of these our United States.
(Somewhere a little northwest of Lebanon, KS is the geographic center of the lower 48 states. The geographic center of all 50 United States is outside of Castle Rock, SD but I’ve...
