T-shirt
Spotted in San Francisco last weekend:
Homosexuals don't create homosexuals.
Heterosexuals do.
Posted by Sebastian / Etceteras / March 21, 2008 /
Quotable: A reality check
Looks like five-term Buffalo congressman Tom Reynolds will retire at the end of the year. (Remember Tom? He's the one who was accused of knowing about, but doing nothing about Mark Foley's transgressions.)
The New York Times says Reynolds' decision was driven by the "difficult electoral climate that his party is facing this fall." The Times quotes Reynolds today as saying, simply, it was "time to face reality."
Posted by Sebastian / Politics / March 21, 2008 /
What a fairy...tale.
Of all the places, I'm in Orlando this week. My friend shot this cameraphone pic of me outside Cinderella's Castle last night...
Posted by Sebastian / Florida / March 19, 2008 /
Food to die for
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the farmers' market at San Francisco's Ferry Building is the best! Yesterday I did my usual Saturday morning routine, a lazy wander around the stalls and pushcarts of the fabulous food bazaar. Just look at these gorgeous veggies!
Posted by Sebastian / San Francisco / March 16, 2008 /
Visions of Cancun
There are many rules in life -- don't wear pleated pants; don't fly mix gin, wine and beer; don't date men from Upstate New York -- and one of my own rules in life I violated this week. It the was the no-Cancun rule. I've always had this policy not because I hate Mexico (on the contrary), it's because I have a problem with the American Midwest. And since Cancun is essentially 600,000 people from Dallas and Detroit crammed into a strip of sand about as wide as a knitting needle, I have had my objections.
Well imagine my surprise when I landed at Cancun's shopping mall of an airport, amidst a flurry of flights from Edmonton (2 of 'em!), Toronto (4 of 'em), Montreal (3 of 'em), Vancouver, and Calgary. Who knew this attracted such a diverse crowd (of Canadians). The water here is so blue!
Cancun has always struck me as a bizarre sort of place. Not many people know that 40 years ago this sprawl of hotel chains packed cheek-by-jowl didn't even exist. Some who vaguely know the history of the place think a computer picked the site for this newish megaresort town. (The tourism people tell me this version's of Cancun's birth is a legend. They say the choice was man-made and hand-picked, not computer-generated.) Regardless, Cancun is artificial and to a great degree feels that way, a developer's interpretation of paradise.
Posted by Sebastian / Mexico / March 13, 2008 /
Where in the world am I...
• Same latitude as Honolulu.
• 600,000 people live here.
• This huge city, amazingly, did not exist four decades ago.
Posted by Sebastian / March 12, 2008 /
Haiti
Who knew Haiti still gets tourists? The Telegraph has a terrific travel piece on the place.
Posted by Sebastian / Etceteras / March 11, 2008 /
Puerto Rico's dog mess
Everyone knows I'm not exactly a dog lover, but the New York Times today has a great spread on Puerto Rico's stray dog and animal cruelty issues...including a gallery of fabulous photos like this one.
Posted by Sebastian / Etceteras / March 9, 2008 /
South American crisis ends
I don't like to toot my own horn, but I seem to bring good luck to places. You see, a few years ago, I arrived in Salt Lake City and within minutes Elizabeth Smart was found alive after her year-long captivity. Then on Thursday, I arrived in Santo Domingo hours ahead of the Rio Group summit, and within a day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had suddenly become bff with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose country he seemed ready to eliminate mere hours before. Coincidence? Hmm...
(Well, now that I think about it, I suppose not all these events have been happy ones - I won't even mention where I was when the Societe Generale scandal hit.)
Posted by Sebastian / Dominican Republic / March 8, 2008 /
Where in the world am I?
Three hints:
• Formerly known as Ciudad Trujillo.
• It was 87 degrees here today.
• The oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas.
Posted by Sebastian / March 5, 2008 /
Spring is almost here!
I'm all set with this cold weather. Next week we spring forward, so sunny skies and flowers in bloom must be right around the corner. Today I tortured myself by looking back at old photos of warmer weather and found this cool close-up shot from Rochester's spectacular Highland Park that I took a few springs ago.
Posted by Sebastian / Rochester / March 2, 2008 /
Tremont 647
Having spent the better part of my income for many years at Sister Sorel/Tremont 647 in Boston, I feel well qualified to complain about the quality of the food. (Full disclosure: once coming to this realization, I did mostly stick to the hefeweizen.) 647 is one of those places no gourmand can stop raving about, and that every food magazine has to gush about, at least once per issue. Boston magazine is the latest to fall victim to this trend, calling it, "the kind of place where one could easily imagine becoming a regular." Am I the only one who can't stand the food? It seems like everything tastes smoky -- and not in a good way. But I suppose that with the amount of booze flowing at the bar, no one really notices how awful the food is. Just as well.
Posted by Sebastian / Boston / March 2, 2008 /
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