My Little Brother in London
“Essentially the restaurant is his mistress, he tries to sneak away to it whenever his wife isn’t looking. It made me imagine him coming home, denying where he had been, only for Anna to see a BBQ smear on his collar.”
June 25, 2008
June 21, 2008
Sligo
“standing around that fire with friends, all still warming from jumping in ice cold water, sipping on Tom’s generously donated top-shelf Irish whisky, watching the sparks and flickers of the fire float upwards blending into the full night’s sky of stars, and hearing Sam’s high, hollowly tenor, singing warm melodies that you can’t believe he’s written.”
June 17, 2008
Friends in London
“Normally (as egotistical as it sounds) someone will name a band and I can list of their earlier albums, side projects, etc, but with Jon I had to stop counting the times I said: “I’ve never even heard of them” only for him to grow in excitement and whip out the CD with you-have-to-listen-to-this flourish.”
June 15, 2008
Highlights of the Highlands (Scotland round 2)
“Soon that would build up and then some silly crewman with a lantern would come too close and blow the whole thing up!” Tina looked skeptical. I think we both thought the aspiring etymologist was full of… well… ship high in transit.”
June 13, 2008
A Quick Venice Story
“As I walked on to meet up with three friends I love, I considered how spoiled I have been and hoped that the acknowledgment of this fact would make a humbler future-me rather than a pretentious “oh yeah, I’ve been there before” ascot-wearing-story-killer.”
June 12, 2008
“Ah, Venice” -Dr. Jones
“People speak of it in a tone typically reserved for places only known to our dreams or wildest imagination and because of that thoroughly convincing tone no one objects when they regard it as the most beautiful city in the world. A place where miracles happen, where love is real, where heaven exists on earth. “
June 8, 2008
Here's Looking At You Kid
“…what’s the worst that could happen? We can always have someone wire us money or something” I said as enthusiastic as I could muster. To be honest though I really had no idea what we would do when we got off the train. We had to pay our hotel upon arrival, and if anything, I mean anything, went wrong we could really be in a bad place. After all we didn’t even have enough money to buy a Coke…”
June 6, 2008
The Girls
“…he and Andy watched Father Ted episodes and after a consist steam of laughter, the girls had no choice but to emerge from the room. The looks on their faces said something to the effect of: “I’m exhausted and could KILL you giggling boys for not shutting up…”
June 5, 2008
Whirlwind
“Three weeks of summation in a sentence or less is: there is never enough time, you just gotta do your best.”
May 15, 2008
I’ve Never Been to Spain, but I Kinda Like the Music
“Out of all the trips I’ve taken this year this one ended up being one of my favorites. The reasons behind this are a mixture of the people I went with, the people I met, and the many many laughs we had together. Well, that and the fact that simply I love Spain.”