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FLYING: Conveyor Belts

 
Flying home today from my ancestral homeland of Vermont to my adopted ancestral birthplace of Portland I  am amazed at the amount of conveyor belts at Newark Int’l Airport.

The airport is the most conveyor belt-dense region of the world of today, and it will only get more impressive according to the experts.  Eventually airports will [...]

SHITTY PLANET: Puerto Rico

Note: I returned from Puerto Rico a couple days ago. I am working on a travel guide series for miserable people, and here is a selection from the Puerto Rico edition:
The Miserable Traveler’s Guide to Puerto Rico

The first thing to know about Puerto Rico is that it is technically a part of the [...]

CRAIGSLIST: “Approx 90% of the people in the Western Hemisphere will want to know more about Mira, Mistress of Destiny”

This is the start of an obsession, I think. My buddy Danny sent over this great ad from the “Writing Gigs” section of Portland’s Craigslist:

Mira, Mistress of Destiny
Reply to: the21writer@alumni.marymount.edu
Date: 2008-01-01, 3:05AM
I’ve written both a novel and a screenplay about a female Maya shaman who leads her people.
My search leads me to seek [...]