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random stuff: branding books, the boss, baseball, botero and botanicals

I wasn’t in Southern Nevada at all in February, so February weather was apparently moved into all of March. Wet, cloudy, cool and windy intermixed with the occasional sunny and almost warm days that are more typical of March down here. Something to do with that whole el nino and la nina thing I guess. […]

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lyon and las vegas, a study in contrast

After returning from France in mid-December and before heading out to Las Vegas early in January, I realized that all of the Anthony Bourdain shows from his stints at various networks were available on Max. We had done a cheap temporary Max subscription at some point earlier in the Fall. So I began going about […]

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ed sheeran revisited, and other miscillany

Ah, sigh. It has been a long time since my last post. In the intervening weeks I’ve been back and forth between Park City and southern Nevada perhaps a half-a-dozen times. The streets in front of both places have been under construction related to civic projects for most of that time. We did catch the […]

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sweet home chicago, remoteness, the vice-president, and the informed flaneur

What a long strange trip it has been. The original plan was for a quick in-and-out for two people over three days to catch a ball game and use up some airline credits that were in need of being used up by a certain date. Simple right. Not so much. The trip had evolved. In […]

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the will to camp and lava hot springs, idaho

It was around ten years ago. Madera Canyon. Arizona. Just south of Tucson. We tent-camped in the small high-elevation campground near the end of the road. Early in the morning, shortly after sunrise, we drove down the canyon for coffee at a fast-food drive-through and then right back up again. A wonderful spot to photograph […]