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<a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" title="Around Udaipur"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/shiplogram.jpg" alt="Around Udaipur" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/around-udaipur" class="u-url" title="Around Udaipur">Around Udaipur</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-30T19:05:47">November <span>30, 2005</span></time>
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<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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Just out of Udaipur is a government sponsored "artist colony" for various cultures from the five nearby states, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Goa and Madhya Pradesh. On one hand Shilpogram is a wonderful idea on the part of the government, but on the other hand the "artists colony" is slightly creepy. Amidst displays of typical tribal life there were artists and craftsmen and women hawking their wares along with dancers and musicians performing traditional songs. The whole thing had the feel of a living museum, or, for the creepy angle — human zoo.
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<a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" title="The Monsoon Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/monsoonpalace.jpg" alt="The Monsoon Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/monsoon-palace" class="u-url" title="The Monsoon Palace">The Monsoon Palace</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-29T12:03:31">November <span>29, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="73.68804930614868"></data>
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We started out in the early evening quickly leaving behind Udaipur and its increasing urban sprawl. The road to the Monsoon Palace passes through the Sajjan Garh Nature Preserve and there was a sudden and dramatic drop in temperature, but then the road climbed out of the hollow and the temperature jumped back up to comfortable as we began to climb the mountain in a series of hairpin switchbacks. As the sun slowly slunk behind the mountain range to the west the balconies and balustrades of the Monsoon Palace took on an increasingly orange hue.
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<a href="/2005/11/city-palace" title="The City Palace"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/citypalaceudaipur.jpg" alt="The City Palace" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/city-palace" class="u-url" title="The City Palace">The City Palace</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-28T22:00:46">November <span>28, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Udiapur</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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I spent some time sitting in the inner gardens of the City Place, listening to rustling trees and the various guides bringing small groups of western and Indian tourists through the garden. In the center of the hanging gardens was the kings, extremely oversized bath, which reminded me of children's book that I once gave to a friend's daughter; it was a massively oversized and lavishly illustrated book that told the story of a king who refused to get out of the bath and instead made his ministers, advisors, cooks and even his wife conduct business by getting in the bath with him.
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<a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" title="Living in Airport Terminals"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ceilingfanindia.jpg" alt="Living in Airport Terminals" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/living-airport-terminals" class="u-url" title="Living in Airport Terminals">Living in Airport Terminals</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-27T11:56:20">November <span>27, 2005</span></time>
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<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Ahmedabad</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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Airport terminals are fast becoming my favorite part of traveling. When you stop and observe them closely as I have been forced to do on this trip, terminals are actually quite beautiful, weird places. Terminals inhabit a unique space in the architecture of humanity, perhaps the strangest of all spaces we have created; a space that is itself only a boundary that delineates the border between what was and what will be without leaving any space at all for what is.
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<a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" title="Anjuna Market"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/anjunabeachmarket.jpg" alt="Anjuna Market" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/anjuna-market" class="u-url" title="Anjuna Market">Anjuna Market</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-24T00:58:15">November <span>24, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Anjuna Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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Earlier today I caught a bus up to the Anjuna Flea Market and can now tell you for certain that old hippies do not die, they simply move to Goa. The flea market was quite a spectacle; riots of color at every turn and more silver jewelry than you could shake a stick at.
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<a href="/2005/11/fish-story" title="Fish Story"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/colvabeach.jpg" alt="Fish Story" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/fish-story" class="u-url" title="Fish Story">Fish Story</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-20T00:54:46">November <span>20, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Colva Beach</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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The Arabian Sea is warm and the sand sucks at your feet when you walk, schools of tiny fish dart and disappear into each receding wave. In the morning the water is nearly glassy and the beach slopes off so slowly one can walk out at least 200 meters and be only waist deep.
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<a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" title="The Backwaters of Kerala"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/keralabackwater.jpg" alt="The Backwaters of Kerala" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/backwaters-kerala" class="u-url" title="The Backwaters of Kerala">The Backwaters of Kerala</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-15T00:53:50">November <span>15, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
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<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.2533569229791"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
The guide showed us Tamarind trees, coconut palms, lemon trees, vanilla vine, plantain trees and countless other shrubs and bushes whose names I have already forgotten. The most fascinating was a plant that produces a fruit something like a miniature mango that contains cyanide and which, as our guide informed us, is cultivated mainly to commit suicide with — as if it was no big deal and everyone is at least occasionally tempted to each the killer mango.
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<a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fortcochin.jpg" alt="Vasco de Gama Exhumed" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/vasco-de-gama-exhumed" class="u-url" title="Vasco de Gama Exhumed">Vasco de Gama Exhumed</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-11T00:51:41">November <span>11, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Fort Kochi</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/india/" title="travel writing from India">India</a>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="9.964370231041409"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="76.24091147315164"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Fort Cochin is curious collision of cultures — Chinese, India and even Portuguese. Many of the obviously older buildings are of a distinctly Iberian-style — moss covered, adobe-colored arches abound. There is graveyard just down the road with a tombstone that bears the name Vasco de Gama, who died and was buried here for fourteen years before being moved to Lisbon (there we go again, more Europeans digging up and moving the dead).
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd third">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/seinetower.jpg" alt="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/riots-iraqi-restaurants-goodbye-seine" class="u-url" title="Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine">Riots, Iraqi Restaurants, Goodbye Seine</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-08T18:30:13">November <span>8, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="48.863514907961644"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="2.3610734936288558"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Well it's my last night here in Paris and I've chosen to return to the best restaurant we've been to so far, an Iraqi restaurant in a Marais. I am using all my willpower right now to avoid having a political outburst re the quality of Iraqi food versus the intelligence of George Bush etc etc. I'm traveling; I don't want to get into politics except to say that my dislike for the current El Presidente was no small factor in my decision to go abroad.
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<article class="h-entry hentry even first">
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<a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" title="Bury Your Dead"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscatacombs.jpg" alt="Bury Your Dead" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/bury-your-dead" class="u-url" title="Bury Your Dead">Bury Your Dead</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-06T18:28:52">November <span>6, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
I would like to say that the catacombs of Paris had some spectacular effect on me seeing that I strolled through human remains, skulls and femurs mainly, "decoratively arranged," but the truth is, after you get over the initial shock of seeing a skull, well, it turns out you can get adjusted to just about anything. Maybe that in and off itself is the scary part.
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd second">
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<a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" title="The Houses We Live In"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/pariscityscape.jpg" alt="The Houses We Live In" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/11/houses-we-live" class="u-url" title="The Houses We Live In">The Houses We Live In</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-11-01T10:40:00">November <span>1, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
I've been thinking the last couple of days about something Bill's dad said to me before I left. I'm paraphrasing here since I don't remember the exact phrasing he used, but something to the effect of "people are essentially the same everywhere, they just build their houses differently." Indeed, Parisian architecture is completely unlike anything in America. Perhaps more than any other single element, architecture reflects culture and the ideas of the people that make up culture.
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<article class="h-entry hentry even third">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" title="Sainte Chapelle"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/saintechapelle.jpg" alt="Sainte Chapelle" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/sainte-chapelle" class="u-url" title="Sainte Chapelle">Sainte Chapelle</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-28T18:25:56">October <span>28, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Sainte Chapelle was interesting to see after the modern, conceptual art stuff at the Pompidou, rather than simple stained glass, Sainte Chapelle felt quite conceptual. In a sense the entire Bible (i.e. all history from that perspective) is unfolding simultaneously, quite a so-called post-modern idea if you think about it. And yet it was conceived and executed over 800 years ago. Kind of kicks a lot pretentious modern art in its collective ass.
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd first">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" title="Living in a Railway Car"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sacrecoeur.jpg" alt="Living in a Railway Car" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/living-railway-car" class="u-url" title="Living in a Railway Car">Living in a Railway Car</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-24T11:20:54">October <span>24, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-region">Paris</span>, <a class="p-country-name country-name" href="/writing/france/" title="travel writing from France">France</a>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
This French apartment is more like a railway sleeper car than apartment proper. Maybe fifteen feet long and only three feet wide at the ceiling. More like five feet wide at the floor, but, because it's an attic, the outer wall slopes in and you lose two feet by the time you get to the ceiling. It's narrow enough that you can't pass another body when you walk to length of it.
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<article class="h-entry hentry even second">
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<a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/heretogo.jpg" alt="Twenty More Minutes to Go" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" class="u-url" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go">Twenty More Minutes to Go</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-20T18:19:10">October <span>20, 2005</span></time>
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<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.63332664528318"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90302036551485"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Well it's the night before I leave. I just got done pacing around the driveway of my parents house smoking cigarettes… nervously? Excitedly? Restlessly? A bit of all of those I suppose. I walk across the street, over the drainage ditch and head for the swing set at the park. Right now I'm swinging in a park in Costa Mesa California. Tomorrow France. Weird. [Photo to the right, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarin/53961434/">via Flickr</a>]
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd third">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" title="Travel Tips and Resources"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/travelgear.jpg" alt="Travel Tips and Resources" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" class="u-url" title="Travel Tips and Resources">Travel Tips and Resources</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-19T18:14:56">October <span>19, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632093907236325"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90123937872937"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
An overview of the things you might want to bring on an extended trip, as well as some tips and recommendations on things like visas and vaccinations. The part that was most helpful for me was learning what I <em>didn't</em> need to bring — as it turns out, quite a bit. Nowadays my pack is much smaller and lighter.
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<article class="h-entry hentry even first">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" title="The New Luddites"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/books.jpg" alt="The New Luddites" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" class="u-url" title="The New Luddites">The New Luddites</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-08T18:17:45">October <span>8, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632147504909575"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90106771735248"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
An older, non-travel piece about Google's plan to scan all the world's books and Luddite-like response from many authors. Let's see, someone wants to make your book easier to find, searchable and indexable and you're opposed to it? You're a fucking idiot.
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd second">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" title="One Nation Under a Groove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ipod.jpg" alt="One Nation Under a Groove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" class="u-url" title="One Nation Under a Groove">One Nation Under a Groove</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-03-25T18:12:59">March <span>25, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.32254049078504"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62804030361058"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
The sky is falling! The iPod! It's ruining our culture! Or, uh, maybe it's just like the Walkman, but better. And since, so far as I can tell, the world did not collapse with the introduction of the Walkman and headphones, it probably isn't going to fall apart just because the storage format for our music has changed. [Photo to the right via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rogpool/2960735485/">Flickr</a>]
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<a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thompson.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson">Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-02-24T18:11:10">February <span>24, 2005</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322635681187286"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62795447292216"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Hunter S. Thompson departs on a journey to the western lands. Thompson's <em>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</em> delivered the penultimate eulogy for the dreams of the 1960's, one that mourned, but also tried to lay the empty idealism to rest.
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<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2004/10/art-essay" title="The Art of the Essay"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/essay.jpg" alt="The Art of the Essay" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2004/10/art-essay" class="u-url" title="The Art of the Essay">The Art of the Essay</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2004-10-10T18:03:13">October <span>10, 2004</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322477030437234"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62834071102037"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
I generally ignore internet debates, they never go anywhere, so why bother. But we all have our weak points and when programmer Paul Graham posted what might be the dumbest essay on writing that's ever been written, I just couldn't help myuself.
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<a href="/2003/09/farewell-mr-cash" title="Farewell Mr. Cash"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/cash.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Cash" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2003/09/farewell-mr-cash" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Cash">Farewell Mr. Cash</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2003-09-12T22:54:50">September <span>12, 2003</span></time>
<p>
<span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location">
<span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.3225087606193"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62804030361072"></data>
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Johnny Cash heads for the western lands.
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