October 2009
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From Flushing to Brooklyn Without a Camera
I landed in New York last Tuesday knowing that I was two days away from the end of my trip. October 8 was the day my All You Can Jet pass would expire, sending me back to Vermont to grapple with being incredibly under-employed, but full of great stories, photos, food memories, and ideas. After late nights in New Orleans, duck hot dogs in Chicago, the OMG! burger in Portland, and vegan smoothies in...
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WatchAfter Ranch Market and a nap out on the lawn, I rallied, and Steve, Aly and I headed over to the Harkin Theaters in Scottsdale to see “Seraphine,” a French film about the painter Seraphine de Senlis (also known as Seraphine Louis). A woman who spent most of her life cleaning houses and painting in secrecy, she was “discovered,” almost by accident, by the German art...
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WatchHe kinda looks like Champ, doesn’t he? (You Vermonters know what I’m talking about.)
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“He introduced himself as a young man of a certain background and renown, but he...”
– Caption on a very nice print I saw last night at First Friday in Downtown Phoenix. I neglected to get the artist’s name.
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September 2009
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San Francisco, TK
I’ve been back from San Fran for a couple of days, and yet, no blogging! As amazing as it sounds, I’ve actually been working. Transcribing a great interview takes time! Luckily, at State of Mind, we have interns who help us with this task. When I’m freelancing, I’m not so lucky.
There are plenty of photos, text, and video to come from SF, so check back in when you get...
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WatchThis is an unedited video of my trip in the Portland Aerial Tram. Yes, I know, Portland is sooo last week, but I wanted to get this up. The tram transports folks from Southwest Portland to the OHSU hospital up on the hill. Or, in this case, down the hill. It’s usually commuters, family members visting someone in the hospital, or tourists like me. It was a great ride, and an amazing view of...
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WatchAnother one for AP. It’s funny what can happen unexpectedly during air travel.
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WatchLast night, after Noah, Elizabeth, Eben and I returned from our trip to the Willamette Valley for wine tastings, we joined some friends for a picnic on the lawn of the Chapman School in NW Portland. From there we watched the Vaux’s Swifts settling in for the night.
These extraordinary birds roost in a now-defunct chimney. There are roughly 20,000 of them, and when they’re all swirling...
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
It’s one of my favorite Bukowski titles because it’s unabashedly romantic, knowing—and true.
I’ve been on this trip for almost two weeks, and it’s moving so fast my vision is blurred. I’m going to continue to post as much as I can, though I’ve put up about 20% of what I would like to. So, if you’re reading along, thanks. I hope you find at least...
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Michael Hurley, Nick Jaina, the Happy Turkey...
I’m a fan of music. I’m a fan of conversation. So I often love conversing about music. (Musicing about conversation is fun, too.) And there’s nothing better than getting into it with, well, musicians. Everyone is different: some people love to dig in and talk about their craft, the places songs come from, their personal history, their influences, the music business—all of...
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WatchOkay, so, this is me and Isaac commuting from his house in Westmoreland, a neighborhood in Southeast Portland, Oregon, to downtown Portland. Our big joke on this trip, and in this video, is how I’m somehow a quintessential Portland hipster: beat-up jeans, a mismatched shirt and blazer, PF Flyer sneakers, a messenger bag, and a 1965 Schwinn. If you listen closely, you can hear Isaac pointing...
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"Thanks for commenting on how much hair I've lost....
One of the unavoidable truths of my fledgling adult life is that I have quite a bit less hair than I did ten years ago. Hey, it happens. It also just happens that my driver’s license photo has caused a lot of look-down-look-up-look-down-look-up kind of action from airport security employees. I was once told in no uncertain terms to “get a new license.” This was a JFK, and the guy...
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WatchSo, Adam, Emily, and I went to the Art Institute of Chicago last Sunday. The museum recently added its first addition since the 1800s, the Modern Wing. It houses the Art Institute’s—big surprise here—modern art collection. We had a great time wandering through British modern art from 1950 to the present and the American modern art collection, both from 1945 to 1960, and from 1960...
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Taxim: Greek Gods in Wicker Park
I’ve recently been a champion of authentic, regional cuisine prepared and served more like it would be at home than in a fancy restaurant. In short, I’ve been down on white linens and expensive wine lists. New Orleans was perfect for me: some of the best food I ate was street food, bought at 1 a.m. outside a music hall. I mean, it usually doesn’t get any better than...
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Twelve Hours in a City
My journey, courtesy of JetBlue, is mostly about visiting friends and seeing a few places I’ve never been to—New Orleans, yo! You know the story by now: I quit my job and a week later, JetBlue announced this promotion. The timing could not have been more perfect.
Now, for a moment or two, I thought, “How can I turn this into a professional opportunity?” I thought about all...
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"There are no two finer words in the English...
When I started planning this trip, I knew eating would be a big part of my travels. Thus the name, “Eat, Walk, Jet!” I mean, we have to have priorities. When I added Chicago to my itinerary, Sabin Gratz, my longtime friend and collaborator in all things creative and gustatory, blurted out, insistently, “Oh, there’s this hot dog place Bourdain went to. Duck and foie gras hot...
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Food Writing
I haven’t been doing any. I’ve been eating quite a bit, but no comments yet. I’ll get to that. Or I’ll change the name of the blog, and, well, wait, no I can’t do that. I’ll write something. Soon. Okay.
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Mia Kaplan, Cedric Angeles, Anna Post, the Ammo...
I can’t help but mention a great chance meeting today on Royal Street. I was lucky enough to work for Emily Post’s family for a few years, and while I was their publicist, I helped set up a shoot for Spirit (Southwest Airlines’ in-flight magazine), whose editor had decided to write a piece about Anna Post. Anna is one of Emily’s great-great-granddaughters, an author and...
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Andrew Bird, Preservation Hall, Lafitte's, Bourbon...
Last night was great. After Aaron made a spicy red sauce with andouille sausage, we decided to do a ramble around the Quarter. I’d never seen Bourbon Street, and though it isn’t my style, it’s one of those things you have to see. In my opinion, if you need to hire a person to convince people to walk into your establishment, that’s strike number one. But hey, on a street...
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Rainy Day, Dream Away... Or Go to Whole Foods
Yeah, I know. That seems a bit odd, considering I’m in New Orleans.
What can I say: It rained all day, and though I got some good work done for a client, shored up a little more local music work, blogged a bit, and saw a compelling job opportunity for the winter, I didn’t have a very “New Orleans” experience.
But this happened: Arturo (I can’t help but want to call...