I have my archives from my old blog! They’re here! With comments and everything! They’re even in the right categories! Images and videos didn’t make it over, and there are a handful of posts that didn’t make it and that I’ll have to put in by hand. (For some reason, it didn’t like my posts …
Category Archive: Travel
Jul 14 2009
Strange Religious Signs in the Midwest
When I went on this trip, I’d been planning to do a Midwestern follow-up to my Strange Religious Imagery in my Neighborhood piece. But alas, Midwesterners don’t go much for floridly weird religious imagery. (At least, not in the part of the Midwest where we were.) They do, however, go for some interesting religious language. …
Sep 25 2007
Night of the Living Vacation Photos
This is the price you pay, people. You want my opinionated rants thoughtful commentary on religion and politics and sex; you have to put up with my vacation snapshots. Hopefully some of you will emerge from the horror unscarred. This is me and Ingrid in front of the Berwyn Spindle. Berwyn is a suburb of …
Apr 11 2007
The Weirdest Little City in the World: Our Trip to Reno
At the risk of sounding like a third-grader’s social studies report: Reno is a land of contrasts. It’s a city whose entire reason for being is to suck money from out-of-towners. (That’s even true historically — according to a plaque we saw on the river, one of the city’s founders was a gold rush prospector …
Jul 26 2005
Travel Diary, 7/26/05: L.A., N.Y., Annandale-On-Hudson, D.C.
Don’t worry. There’s no effing way I’m going to bore you all with a detailed diary of everything I did on my summer vacation. I’m going to content myself with a single exceptional (or exceptionally weird) moment from each city we went to. Los Angeles: A really good question from the audience at the reading/book …




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