Favorite bits from Lebanon:
Beirut! It’s amazing, gorgeous, tragic, and fucking hardcore. Swaths of it are still annihilated from the civil war. You’ll have a shelled-out building next to a pile of rubble next to a fancy café next to an under-construction luxury condo hi-rise next to a crater next to an adorable little restaurant,...
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I Go Places: Lebanon
Go There: The Middle East
More later, but we’re recently back from a 2-week blitz of Jordan, Syria & Lebanon. Lovely people, amazing food, stunning ruins, zany border crossings, the occasionally overheard bit of distant gunfire, the faded glory of Beirut–all very worth doing, provided you don’t have an...
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I Just Don’t Know What to do With This Information
So, I’m poking around the backend of this sexy chunk of Web–updating some plug-ins, tweaking some settings, blah blah blah. Fun, right? Right. And I glance at the traffic widget, which lists the top searches people use to find their way here. One of...
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A Personal Betrayal
We are off to the Middle East in a few days, because, apparently, it’s not hot enough in NYC. We’ll be in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, doing the tourist...
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Walking the Dog, Looking at Manhattan
Abby, being a dog, just looooves to go to the park on her walks. Something about peeing on real grass, I suppose, gets her fired up. I’m guessing it’s...
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Why I Cut Back on Brown Liquor
Reading Hunter S. Thompson turned me on to Wild Turkey. I wasn’t old enough to buy the stuff, but I knew people who were, and so it was that...
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