Going Dutch in the Digital Age
On the last leg of the European Trip, Manny finds himself talking Porn & Social Networking on a Dutch island with a woman who may not really exist…
The Future of Us
Everywhere—all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There’s a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they’re terrifying, because they are the death of the soul…. This is the prison this planet is being turned into. – J.G. [...]
Getting to Copenhagen
You turn over the last of your cash to the smiling lady, the amalgamation of months of traveling: Yuan, Tugriks, Rubles, Kroons, Zlotys, Forints, even some Rupees, all heaped on the counter in the dismal hope that the beautiful smiling machine can change it into whatever it is they use here, in this way station, [...]
Building new walls in Berlin
It was there when another well-known wall was built in 1961, and when the same was torn down in 1989. It has seen two centuries of some of the best and worst world leaders stand on its border, decrying this and that. Once part of a longer wall itself, it is modeled after a main [...]
The Dead Dance in Warsaw
When the question, “Why did you come to _______?” inevitably gets asked upon chatting with newly met strangers in strange lands, some, like the Japanese, seem boastful and even a bit pompous about their country’s attractiveness, whereas the Polish, when it was asked, seemed to be wondering why I would come to Warsaw at all. [...]
Estonia – Country of Song
Estonia is one of those places that no one ever thinks about. I never did. Not until I arrived there by bus- a mere seven hours after leaving St. Petersburg- one typically rainy summer morning on the Baltic Sea. More than Russia or other vaguely Eastern European countries of which some inkling of a preconceived [...]