The Balkans may not be a land of opportunity, but they are a land of possibility. They are like Africa in that there is a sense that anything can happen there. Often this is for good. More often it is for ill.
That is exactly how you get Cylons.
#Split is at the same time an industrial town and a magical beach side vacation destination. I like to think of it as a duality between its two patrons, Diocletian and Dino Radja.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Venetian plazas lately. I never had the thought, but it checks out.
A friend and colleague, who is a genius, Black, trans, Africa expert (but not a radical) hated the movie. They thought Killmonger's throne scene's staging was straight out of Birth of a Nation, and it dismissed Black-Americans as lost an unmoored.
Somehow I missed this when I visited Croatia in 2003
I’d really like to hoop there #dubrovnik
Doesn’t get much more beautiful than Korcula.
Thank God someone wrote this.
Good on ya!
Annual Wade Boggs text to the 1984/85 Red Sox text chain: “Happy Easler!”
Teammates collectively roll their eyes and mutter, “for the 42nd year in a row, Wade. Give it a rest.”
A Dalmatian in Dalmatia
Yeah not tough. I asked trump or Ted Bundy some time ago. That was tougher.
Uh, multiple teenagers.
Her job is to prevent her husband from being prosecuted for defecating on a woman. Still, can't believe it didn't come up in her confirmation.
Do you know when they stopped displaying them? I leave in Geneva, and they definitely haven't been at MEG for a while.
Everyone except Wilyer sucks.
I never book my seats in advance and accept that having a shitty seat not next to my travel companion is the cost of doing business. I also never book together when traveling with my kids, because making someone pay for that is appalling--not your fault though.
NYC Mayor Zorhan Mamdani’s dad, anthropologist Mahmoud Mamdani, wrote a fascinating book that tries to rehabilitate Idi Amin. I like the mayor, though he's somewhat left of me. His father, however, I think is way, way left of me. From my review of his book available at the link:
That’s the classic Storrow Drive problem in boston every September.
Superb short read. I found it really soothing.
Getting fired up for Opening Day by listening to all my favorite ballpark anthems: Centerfield, Sweet Caroline, Dirty Water, Take on Me... The Liza Minelli version of New York, New York.
Getting in tune for opening day... 2008
Getting fired up for Opening Day by listening to all my favorite ballpark anthems: Centerfield, Sweet Caroline, Dirty Water, Take on Me... The Liza Minelli version of New York, New York.
This is the brand new award that Speaker Johnson will be presenting the President.
I was tying to figure out the right joke. This is it. Well done.
Happy Major League #Baseball opening day to everyone who has a soul. To those who do not know it is opening day, I pray for you.
In related news, The #Red#Sox opening in #Cincinnati is a venal sin.
Emperor Bokassa, is that you?
I read his bio. What happened to this guy? He was wrong on something and it broke him? He doesn’t appear to have always been a nutter.
