Thursday, February 28, 2013

Have your boarding pass ready

More than once in an airport I have met a foreigner who was confusing "gate" and "seat" or "terminal".  I was reading The Back of the Napkin in an airport and thought:Why not a visual representation thereof? "Terminal "is kind of hard to draw, I found.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Reading from Ferlinghetti

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Friday, February 15, 2013

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Earth from Space from Youtube



One of the original desires of Moon Traveller site was to look at world like so.
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Saturday, February 02, 2013

Langston Blues

Yesterday would have been Langston Hughes' birthday. I always counted him as a chief blues poet, but I never knew the full extent til I heard this whole record today-courtesy of WHRB. The Weary Blues. Sounds a lot like Jack Kerouac - or vice versa. Backing ranges from Red Garland to Charles Mingus.


Blues Montage (Parts 1, 2, 3) http://mog.com/m/track/767331?ci=40000
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