“We used to drive
Thru Lafayette and Baton Rouge
In a yellow El Camino
Listening to Howling Wolf…”
-Lucinda Williams -”Lake Charles”
If you grew up, as I did, in the U.S. in the you probably have fond (or other) memories of the Chevrolet El Camino. You couldn’t go far in the American South or West without seeing one of [...]
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They got the “south” right
Dropping in from outer space
We’re here. It’s been a couple of days of physically painful, bleary-eyed jetlag. I don’t even know if I can do it justice. The trip was, well the trip is over. Let’s just say that I am not traveling back to the States or Europe until the trip here is somehow erased from my memory.
I’m [...]
Just one more little hop
“Adelaide
On a plane
Far from the United StatesOf LA
Dropping in from outer space
Takes a day…”
-Ben Folds – “Adelaide”
Tomorrow is the day. The last leg of our trip, the longest and probably the most painful. Orlando to L.A. to Sydney to Adelaide. We’ve managed to avoid, and I’m knocking madly on wood, the horrifying stomach contents ejecting [...]
Great Interview Week: A Shooter Girl Goes to Paris
I was thrilled when I drew Jennifer from No Place Like It for my second go at the Great Interview Experiment. Like your underwhelming correspondent, Jennifer is an expat (a Canadian in Paris) dragged overseas in a net of romantic entanglement with a furriner. Like myself, she seems happy to stay in her adopted home. [...]
Heave away, haul away
“Haul away your rolling king
Heave away, Haul away
Haul away oh hear me sing
We’re bound for South Australia…”
-The Pogues – “South Australia”
Since we moved to Britain in the autumn of 2004 we’ve been trying to figure out where to go from here. Neither of us are British, so we have no ties to the place, but [...]
A question of perspective
“You cant go on, thinkin’,
Nothings’ wrong, but bye,
Who’s gonna drive you home,
tonight?”
-The Cars – “Drive”
I may have created some confusion the other day when I wrote about passing my driving test. I am not, in my mid-thirties, learning to drive for the first time – though if you’ve ever ridden with me you may question [...]
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