Month: August 2003

heyo, guess who’s back from a little stop in paradise? whee! more on that. etc. when. etc.

but here’s a weird thing to listen to…

and this too….

(Brief, due to travelling)
The other day, I finished A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by Paul Bowles. A collection of surreal short-stories dealing with hashish-induced oddities. Very worthwhile, ultimately.

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heading down the rabbit hole… i’m all about slippering down the rabbit hole… wheee!

I just finished reading Dark Star by Alan Furst. (I ran into a recommendation/review of it on Brad Delong’s site.) It is an excellent book. It made the horror of Nazi Germany come alive in a way that I had never quite experienced before; an entire people going utterly and irrevocably insane. (It does seem like such an awfully long time ago for such a spring chicken as myself.)

Also, a brilliant description of the intricacies and mundanities surrounding spycraft and that whole ignorant left/right hand thing. (Not that I would know personally, but it seemed utterly right on.)

As always, you can find it here as well.