Taste of Nostalgia in Buffalo

Short trips to Buffalo, my hometown, always leave me wishing I had more time, either to visit the excellent Albright Knox Gallery or to catch some free Shakespeare in Delaware Park. With little time to work with this past weekend, I prioritized like a true Buffalonian — by eating and drinking my way through 72 hours.
I [...]

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Reading Geoff Dyer at the MET

It turns out the Walker Evans Archive at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is named thusly for a reason. If it were on exhibit, it would be called the Walker Evans Exhibit.
I visited the MET after finishing The Ongoing Moment, Geoff Dyer’s not-quite-comprehensive survey of photography. Dyer writes considerably on Evans, and I [...]

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Green Fairy Muscles onto Cupid’s Turf

Originally posted February 14th, 2008
 East Village Wine and Liquor decided to ring in Valentine’s Day with a free absinthe tasting. Gothamites could swing by to sample French-made Le Tourment Vert. Critics are split on its less traditional flavor, which subdues the wormwood flavor.
Also today, Marilyn Manson’s Swiss-made and lazily-named absinthe — Mansinthe — was roundly bashed by wormwood cognoscenti. Its olfactory charm [...]

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9000 Hours. Give or Take.

This is not a blog about Vietnam. Or rather, it is…or it might be. Hopefully not. Let me explain.
Welcome to 9000 Hours in Saigon. This blog is not currently written from Vietnam, but  it will be in a few short weeks. For the next year (or 9000 hours, approximately) I’ll be penning dispatches from South [...]

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