Daily Archives Friday, March 2008

General Advice on Mongolia Travel

If they fail to recognize you for your achievements (i.e. survival), realize they don’t get it (yet) and have faith that their time will come .

…well the G is swallowed, and calls up from the bottom of your throat, leading to a slippery o that somehow terminates in a soft V. Realize you won’t be learning this language from a book.

Cats, Marbles, and a School Teacher: Another Un-braided Braided Essay

I don’t know what whore you give the tip on this Night of Joy, but our boys have been in there almost every night and they haven’t turned up anything.

…She padded her way purposefully down each link of the fire escape, pausing only once to watch a man groggily swat at his blaring alarm clock.

On Leftist Gorillas and Industrial Decor (with Kyle)

To some people, the five South American dialects she spoke and translated, sounded like birds clicking and squawking at each other–to her it sounded like rain on a summer’s eve…. _A pebble on the ground caught her attention–she didn’t know the word for “pebble” in this part of the Amazon.

More notes on a translator

Stand by and look uninvolved as she grilles the drivers for rates and times; you don’t want them to raise her rate because of you.

…She said she drinks, but just “doesn’t feel like it.” On your birthday?

Fragments

The sun, an abstract circle shining light onto the 2nd most prolific — the moon — both gazing down onto our humble blue-green oblate spheroid (sort-of circles)…. 1-800-Spiralz Classical Music Through this confluence of sounds we gaze into worlds gone by a saccharine pop ballad for a lady with corset-fractured ribs, and impotent, hunting husband.