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<article class="h-entry hentry odd first">
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<a href="/2008/10/elkmont-and-great-smoky-mountains" title="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/reflectedtrees.jpg" alt="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/10/elkmont-and-great-smoky-mountains" class="u-url" title="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains">Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-10-31T15:16:13">October <span>31, 2008</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">Great Smoky Mountains</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Tennessee</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.680446234758236"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.65024565485956"></data>
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Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach in the mountains. Redneck weddings cascade straight out of the chapel and into the mini golf reception area. Pigeon Forge is everything that's wrong with America. But we aren't here for Pigeon Forge, it just happens to have a free condo we're staying in. We're here for the mountains. Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few miles up the road.
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<a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" title="Rope Swings and River Floats"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/chestateeriver.jpg" alt="Rope Swings and River Floats" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" class="u-url" title="Rope Swings and River Floats">Rope Swings and River Floats</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-27T20:14:49">July <span>27, 2008</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">Mountain Cabin</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.53463159921271"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.90280245566663"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. Unfortunately, proving one of my travel mottos -- you can never go back -- a return trip proved disastrous.
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd third">
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<a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wrong.jpg" alt="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" class="u-url" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well">In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-07T14:45:29">June <span>7, 2008</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">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.944877470043906"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38860689432926"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Why all the vitriol about a seemingly innocuous concept -- that traveling doesn't have to cost a lot of money, isn't all that difficult and hey, you can even go right now? People like us, who feel tied down by responsibility, find the suggestion that we actually aren't tied down patronizing and yes, elitist.
</span>
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<article class="h-entry hentry even first">
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<a href="/2007/11/fall" title="Fall"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fall.jpg" alt="Fall" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/11/fall" class="u-url" title="Fall">Fall</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-11-14T02:25:17">November <span>14, 2007</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">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.9448641194789"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38856934340312"></data>
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<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it's Fall, we're also in the middle of a prolonged drought and this year the leaves are opting for a James Dean-style, leave-a-good-looking-corpse exit. If you're a leaf and you've got to go, do it with class.
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<a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" title="On The Other Ocean"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sailing.jpg" alt="On The Other Ocean" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" class="u-url" title="On The Other Ocean">On The Other Ocean</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-07-23T11:24:44">July <span>23, 2007</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">Catalina Island</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="33.46191438592164"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.52130172987002"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Consider what would happen if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left, how this would complicate ordinary activities -- like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet up and down in a seesaw-like motion on a perpendicular axis to the 30 degree tilt -- things become more like riding a seesaw that's attached to a merry-go-round which is missing a few bolts. That's sailing.
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<a href="/2007/06/being-there" title="Being There"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/myrtlebeachcrap.jpg" alt="Being There" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/being-there" class="u-url" title="Being There">Being There</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-17T02:18:54">June <span>17, 2007</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">Myrtle Beach Airport</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.683925130931456"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-78.92835615966725"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Myrtle Beach does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses, where most towns attempt to draw in big name musical acts for their tourist venues, Myrtle Beach is content with impersonators.
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<article class="h-entry hentry odd first">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" title="Sailing Through"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/charlestonships.jpg" alt="Sailing Through" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
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<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" class="u-url" title="Sailing Through">Sailing Through</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-15T00:15:43">June <span>15, 2007</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">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span>
<data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.835570335240995"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.82256172976372"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
The rumors are true. I moved back to the south; Athens GA to be exact. But I hate staying in one place for too long, so after a month or two in Athens I headed up to Charleston to visit a friend. The south is curious place. If you've never been here I couldn't hope to explain it, but it's not so much a place as an approach. A way of getting somewhere more than anywhere specific. Perhaps even a wrong turn.
</span>
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<article class="h-entry hentry even second">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/lacloud.jpg" alt="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
</div>
<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" class="u-url" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove">Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-03-01T11:15:10">March <span>1, 2007</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">Los Angeles</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="34.040907225218874"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.47207783003557"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
It's strange how you can plan something, go through all the motions of making it happen without ever really understanding what you're doing. I've been doing this for the better part of three years now. I realized recently that I have no real idea how I came to be here.
</span>
</p>
</article>
<article class="h-entry hentry odd third">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" title="Everything All The Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/end.jpg" alt="Everything All The Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
</div>
<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" class="u-url" title="Everything All The Time">Everything All The Time</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-02-03T11:14:13">February <span>3, 2007</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">Los Angeles</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="33.97530686407635"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42890499373785"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
I don't know if I'm just overly paranoid but when I call up memories in the dark hours of the Beaujolais-soaked pre-dawn, I see a collection of mildly amusing, occasionally painful series of embarrassments, misunderstandings and general wrong-place, wrong-time sort of moments. Which isn't to imply that my life is a British sitcom, just that I'm not in a hurry to re-live any of it.
</span>
</p>
</article>
<article class="h-entry hentry even first">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/illuminatus.jpg" alt="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
</div>
<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" class="u-url" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions">The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-01-11T18:11:30">January <span>11, 2007</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">Los Angeles</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="33.97517340607632"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42887280722941"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
"And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus." -- Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley. Good luck and Godspeed Mr. Wilson.
</span>
</p>
</article>
<article class="h-entry hentry odd second">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jamesbrown.jpg" alt="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
</div>
<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" class="u-url" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose">Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-12-25T19:10:49">December <span>25, 2006</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">Los Angeles</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="33.97519564909091"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42893718024602"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
Traveling soul. Soul is not something out there or in you, it's the place where you meet the out there; something very similar to what I think James Brown meant — a mixture of the secular and the spiritual, the profane and the sublime.
</span>
</p>
</article>
<article class="h-entry hentry even third">
<div class="post--image">
<a href="/2006/06/homeward" title="Homeward"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trappedmoth.jpg" alt="Homeward" class="u-photo post-image" /></a>
</div>
<h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/homeward" class="u-url" title="Homeward">Homeward</a></h1>
<p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p>
<time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-09T11:05:34">June <span>9, 2006</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">Los Angeles</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="33.975160060264834"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42903373977045"></data>
</span> –
<span class="p-summary hyphenate">
New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the subways extension to the terminal never looked so good. What is it like to be home? I don't know, I'll tell you when I get there.
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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>
<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="33.63332664528318"></data>
<data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90302036551485"></data>
</span> –
<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 even second">
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<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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<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 even first">
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<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>
</span> –
<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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<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>
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<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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