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Posts Tagged ‘Places’

Free at Last

In Blog, Photo Album on 18 January 2010 tagged Places with 3 comments

The Lorraine Motel on our 2008 visit to Memphis, TN.

The Big Bend

In Blog on 28 December 2009 tagged Places, Texas with 3 comments

As you have no doubt surmised, I’m in vacation mode. I’m leaving this morning for a week-long Texas road trip that will culminate in Big Bend, where I’ll be spending New Year’s Eve with CLH and some friends, including the geologist who takes tequila shots with halite.
This geologist friend is the same person who was [...]

The Georgian Hotel

In Photo Album on 25 November 2009 tagged Places with no comments

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the georgian hotel, heh, originally uploaded by absentmindedprof.

This is where I’m staying in L.A. (well, Santa Monica) right now. Built in 1933. Walking distance from everything. Right across from the beach. In short, AWESOME.

More tales from the Wall

In Internerd on 10 November 2009 tagged Places, Reading with no comments

Der Spiegel has an excellent account of the events of the Berlin Wall’s destruction.

The wall comes tumbling down

In Blog, Photo Album on 9 November 2009 tagged Places with no comments

A year ago I met CLH in Germany and proceeded to spend five days and four nights in Berlin, a city I knew nothing about and was only minutely interested in. It ended up being one of my favorite places in the world.
I wish I could say I remember watching The Wall fall on television [...]

Malm whale

In Blog on 19 August 2009 tagged Places with no comments

Post-lunch, I googled the Malm whale, the world’s only stuffed blue whale.
It stranded an unfortunate afternoon back in 1865. You had that civil war thing going on, we had eternal cold and famine. A stuffed whale was big news. Especially since the whale was eventually touched by the gifted hands of interior decorators, spiffing up [...]

Room 396

In Blog on 9 August 2009 tagged Places with no comments

For our kronor, this inn has more old-fashioned charm and authentic character than any other hotel in town. The third-oldest hotel in Gothenburg was built in 1859, predating the Swedish use of the word to describe a building with rooms for travelers. Many emigrants to the New World spent their last night in the old [...]

Meatballs!

In Blog, Photo Album on 7 August 2009 tagged Places with no comments

I am headed to Gothenburg, the home of Hasselblad, tomorrow. I know nothing about Sweden (I have never been there) except Ikea and meatballs. Gothenburg is supposed to have the highest student population in all of Europe though, so I am looking forward to wandering its canal-lined streets.
I discovered Tacita Dean in Norway and Seydou [...]

Seydou Keita

In Internerd, Photo Album on 5 August 2009 tagged Places, Reading with no comments

Last fall, when CLH and I were traveling through Europe, we visited the Tate Modern in London. Eight years before, when I was in London studying abroad, the Tate Modern had it’s grand opening on the week of my birthday. I had always wanted to take CLH there.
We saw lots of exhibitions of modern arts [...]

Singin’ fa fa fa fa fa fa

In Blog, Video on 9 July 2009 tagged Listening, Places, Watching with 1 comment

Falling in love all over again with the Stax/Volt catalog after re-watching the Stax/Volt Revue from 1967, filmed in Norway. We bought the DVD on our trip to Memphis last year. BTW, the Stax Museum is one of the best museums I’ve ever visited, literally.
The Wikipedia page for Otis Redding is full of delicious nuggets [...]