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Jul19

I fixed the search

You may not have known it was broken, but the broken search was something that had been bothering me for a long time. For awhile it had been co-opted by the forum, but then it was just broken.  Now it's fixed, in that when you search for something, you get results.  Or you get results if you search for something I've written about.

That is all.  Show day today in hot-ass Athens.

 
Jul19

Athens

myselfI made it to Athens, survived the 4-shows-in-5-days nonsense and managed to spend a couple hours this morning at the top of the hill in the Acropolis.  It's small enough to wander all over and shoot photos even in a couple hours.  The part of Athens that's right around the base of the hill is really picturesque, actually, and probably worth a walk back this evening for dinner.  We'll see.

The obvious advantages of getting there as the place opened (temperature, crowds) were in full effect here, since it allowed me to wander around the lower grounds on the South side of the hill without feeling like I was going to die of heat exhaustion or be engulfed in crowds.  No amount of postponement, however, could keep me from being pulled to the top of the hill and noticing with chagrin how little I remembered from my Humanities classes 17ish years ago.  There was a time when I could have told you not only when each building was built but who designed it and particulars about each building.  Sadly, that's not true anymore.

Absurdist musings  and a picture of the Parthenon after the break.

 

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Jul10

Istanbul!

Haggia Sophia

Istanbul was way cooler than I thought it would be.

Maybe it's because I'm a guy (I heard that some of the girls on our tour dealt with sexism that would miss me entirely) and maybe it's because I had just come from Cairo, where literally everything was either falling down or being put up and the people were pretty much unaffected by all of it, maybe it's because Takumi had a friend who was willing to drive us around and play tourguide, or at least tour facilitator, but whatever the cause, I was impressed.

More nonsense after the break.

 

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Jul04

Happy 4th of July!

No Egypt update today - I took the day to just chill, write and catch up on work-stuff.

But HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

I appreciate you all the more when I'm away like this.  I'm going to break my alcohol fast now and drink a couple of beers.

 
Jul18

Intern-ageddon!

Yo!

I've been *days* without internet.  It's been amazing and horrifying, enlightening and torturous.  We've done 4 shows in 5 days and I'm fucking exhausted, to be totally honest. Landed in Athens this evening and have a day off tomorrow, so, barring total mental meltdown, i'll be checking out the acropolis tomorrow and looking at all the old shit atop that most famous of Greek hills.  Pictures, naturally, to follow.

 
Jul08

Egypt - Days 4-6

New Library at AlexandriaSo I didn't update during my down day, and after that, events just proceeded too fast for me to keep up with.  What follows, by way of apology, is a condensed account of the Shit I Did during those last couple of days.

It's an apology because it's short.  Trust me, you'll appreciate it.

Okay, actually, coming back to my introduction after writing the entry, I have to say that it's not short, just shorter than it would have been had I written full updates day-by-day.  Maybe.  And this entry is absolutely full of absurd asides, which, of course, make it much longer than it needs to be.  So this is an apology for the fact that the apology-by-way-of-brevity is actually bullshit.  Probably you should skip this one.

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Jul03

Egypt - Day 3

Facade of the Egyptian MuseumWelcome back!

Today's installment takes us to the Egyptian Museum in big, bad Tahrir Square, through that self-same roundabout, across Cairo into the City of the Dead and to a Mosque built over 800 years ago, as well as to a few other places I may or may not get to.

I can't decide if I recommend reading any further today, actually, because today was so much weirder than yesterday and definitely contained less iconic stuff (although King Tut's shit is pretty well-known).  It did give me an eye-opening view of what the city is like from street level, that's for sure.

Onwards!

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