January 4, 2018:
Hoop dreams. Phantom of liberty. Kevin can wait.
Ars Gratia Artis. Houston, we are the problem.
You, sir, are a steely-eyed missile man.
January 3, 2018:
Vermin in sunshades. Melancholy fate of Humanism. I am no longer flesh, I am made of smoke.
January 2, 2018:
Two rings.
Larger and smaller. Circle: symbol of infinity. Gold: incorruptible.
Now and forever.
- January 1, 2018: How removed you feel.
- December 31, 2017: History of things to come.
- December 30, 2017: Government pawns and missing limbs: that’s amore.
- December 29, 2017: Romance novels, science-fiction, and sharia law.
- December 28, 2017: Quarters in the ceiling.
- December 27, 2017: "Just... live," said my father, nervously...
- December 26, 2017: Smell of lighter fluid.
- December 25, 2017: Hick town Juliette.
- December 24, 2017: Young Waterbury women.
- December 23, 2017: In masquerade she wears a crown of fingers.
- December 22, 2017: That one wanted to wrestle.
- December 21, 2017: There's a reference in a very old journal...
- December 20, 2017: There's something familiar about that time and place.
- December 19, 2017: She made out with my academic advisor.
- December 18, 2017: We were close then.
- December 17, 2017: He told her, "I don't care who you give your body to..."
- December 16, 2017: He slept with eyes open.
- December 15, 2017: Kong lives on a very black island but loves white chicks the best.
- December 14, 2017: The optimism of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.
- December 13, 2017: Since then there've been so many.
- December 12, 2017: The first person I knew who died was a boy in high school who shot himself.
- December 11, 2017: The claustrophobia thing.
- December 10, 2017: She paid for that record with her pussy.
- December 9, 2017: At the worst moment of the worst year of my life...
- December 8, 2017: Downstairs Diva dimes her Marshall stack...
- December 7, 2017: There seems to be almost no public memory of the resistance to Nazi occupation.
- December 6, 2017: Hill of the Pnyx.
- December 5, 2017: Crowds.
- December 4, 2017: For our final morning we go searching for the scene of the crime.
- December 3, 2017: The desk fellow was taken aback when I apologized.
- December 2, 2017: Signs of the crisis.
- December 1, 2017: Bored American blonde on honeymoon.
- November 30, 2017: Athens smells of cigarettes and diesel.
- November 29, 2017: It was white then, but it's brown now.
- November 28, 2017: The one and only time we take an organized tour.
- November 27, 2017: God it was such a soap opera.
- November 26, 2017: And so we settle down to an Athenian routine.
- November 25, 2017: Aloof Americans at other tables.
- November 24, 2017: Birthday feast.
- November 23, 2017: Lord of the Lion's House of strength
- November 22, 2017: I would ask the Oracle, if she lived:
- November 21, 2017: Eat, drink, flirt, sleep.
- November 20, 2017: Straight through those ten weeks my journals ignore the trip itself...
- November 19, 2017: Let's live there.
- November 18, 2017: Comfortable hotel, beautiful museum, extraordinary views, unbelievable restaurant.
- November 17, 2017: Delphi, January 22, 1980.
- November 16, 2017: My traveling companion has a system.
- November 15, 2017: Long chat with the intelligent and friendly volunteer at the ticket booth.
- November 14, 2017: Travel in Africa when Obama was President:
- November 13, 2017: We were all about that kitsch.
- November 12, 2017: Tzatziki, black-eyed peas...
- November 11, 2017: I'd like to go closer.
- November 10, 2017: The buses' air conditioners sound like beehives.
- November 9, 2017: "Sheila! I've met some Greeks."
- November 8, 2017: Much of the commercialization feels incompetent.
- November 7, 2017: Again what hits me hardest is how tiny is the Argive Vale.
- November 6, 2017: Sitting on the wall with bread and cookies...
- November 5, 2017: No site better illustrates than Mycenae the change of decades.
- November 4, 2017: We share the site with an Italian drama class.
- November 3, 2017: Khoriatiki.
- November 2, 2017: We splurged for hot showers, at the King Otto Hotel.
- November 1, 2017: There's context for this lack of precision.