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Aug 31

So I’m back from London, trying to get things done. I had no food in my refrigerator so I had to pop open one of the precious cheese packets my mom gave me

Aug 15

So my mom’s in town and we’re tooling around Tashkent, and it’s really surreal. I’ve been living this very un-American life here, speaking Russian and acting Uzbek and doing the whole Peace Corps

Aug 12

So I’m back from Nukus. Jesus, what a screwed up camp that was! I mean, sometimes people just don’t see things that are right in front of us. The American director was

Aug 9

Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

How compelling the fantasy of real life is! Today, we have movies sold and packaged as real life and real life sold and packaged as movies. On television, “real life” has become everyone’s favorite