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Loneliness

This may sound like a strange parallel to make, but going to the gym and listening to This American Life have always shared a particular trait for me and one that I have a hard time understanding. Basically, both activities take up about an hour. One 24th of a day....

[Criticism] The Death of Newspapers. The Transparency of Editing

I've been meaning to write about a recent episode of the World Technology Podcast on the so-called death of foreign correspondance and Paul Steiger's recent front page reflection on the history and future of the newspaper industry in the Wall Street Journal just...

[Video] Medellin es una Chimba (Pero nosotros no somos monos)

Medellín, Colombia, una ciudad hermosa con paisajes impresionantes y gente amable que te hace sentir bienvenido. Pero hay una cosa que nos deja confundido. Por que a nosotros todos los paisas nos llaman monos? Descarga para tu iPod Suscribe a todos los videos...

[Slowly] Zagreb

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've found myself walking around some foreign city, knowing neither the language nor the currency, and staring into the coupled conversations of comfortable coffeehouse confines. How's that for alliteration? The steam on the...

[Return] Sparshles and Oso Podcast

Following weeks of feverish media speculation, Sparky and Oso Productions, makers of the wildly successful Sparky and Oso Podcast, have made it known to high-level investors that they are in the process of re-branding. The podcasting, dancing, shit-talking, and...

[The Mission] Dia de los Muertos and Fixed Gear Bikes

Itzpapalotl on Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco's dirty-hipster neighborhood, the Mission. (The translation and re-conjugation of verbs is my own doing.) The Day of the Dead, in my neighborhood, is practically the only day in which being Mexican is cool; just as...