This Slate story and the accompanying video are pretty interesting. They tell of a remote village in Peru whose people had been living in... »
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Slate: Praise Jesús for No More El Bulli Articles
Ha! Now this is funny. As you surely know, I love to whine and complain about things I don’t like, including banal, regurgitative, one-upsman, and/or pretentious writing. Come on, don’t we all? Oh, be quiet, Double Rainbow guy and why do you keep hanging around here? But because I’m not as gifted a writer as some (I know,... »
Unplugging Blah Blah Blah
You know what’s been chafing my nerves lately? (If you thought “her inner thighs,” you’d be right but my lack of attention to pilates is none of your concern at the moment, thank you very much.) No, it’s the surplus of travel articles in which the author decides to boldly go into the deep blue... »
“The beans, the ground beef, it was torture!”
What a nightmare. The New York Times is reporting (via the AP) that there’s been a miner involved in a chili disaster. What type of chili disaster we can only imagine: too spicy? not enough onions? or, could it be… vegan??? Luckily, the miner survived although I doubt he’ll be firing up the crock pot... »
This Week’s New York Times: Homestay in Guatemala and a Low Opinion for Slum Tourism
Whenever we travel, we don’t feel like writing about travel – ironic, no? So, since we just got back from a nice road trip in Chile, we’ll leave you with the following two articles from this week’s New York Times: 1. An opinion column on the nastiness of slum tourism. We’ve written about this before but... »
Location, Location, Location! Eco-Retreat Center Needs Your Input
As you may know from our previous post about this super-exciting Life Pivot (new phrase – expect it to be all the rage on Twitter for a day), we are embarking on a quest to buy some land and develop our own humble eco-retreat center. Our plans have changed just a bit from what... »
The Mindful Tourist Celebrates the Fourth of July
Happy Independence Day, suckahs! Here is our planned schedule for how to celebrate the fourth in a fun yet socially conscious way: Location: Beach in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. 7am – Get woken up by douchebags who decide a good time to practice setting off the night’s fireworks is before anyone has had their morning fair trade espresso. 7:15am... »
Slightly Off-Topic But Please Help Us Understand
We’re truly baffled. Maybe it’s because just today we finished Barbara Kingsolver’s wonderful (leetle bit preachy, Babs) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and are all hyped to go to the farmer’s market, bake some bread, and sit on turkey eggs. Here’s the conundrum: Slow Food USA is holding slow food cooking demonstrations in three American cities. So... »
Graham Land and His Green Peeves in El Pod of Cast
Did anything in that title make sense to you? Keep reading and all will be revealed. Graham Land (possibly most awesome name ever) is an environmental writer who we knew back in the days of his straight edge youth, which incidentally served us well when we were locked out of our house one day in... »
Someecards: A Decent Way to Pass an Hour
Last year we were introduced to someecards (thanks, Shannon!), a snarky alternative to cheesy, typical e-cards, and since then, we’ve had a good time picking out deliberately ambiguous (is she being serious? is she mad or just being funny?) cards to our loved ones. Here are some goodies related to the upcoming summer travel season: Fun, right? Just wait until... »
Iceland Volcano to Travelers and Mozzarella: Kiss My Ash
Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH’-plah-yer-kuh-duhl or “Lady Jaja” as we like to call her) just gave the finger to hundreds of thousands of travelers in Europe and around the world. Jaja erupted earlier this week sending dangerous ash into the air; winds have scattered the air across many countries, disrupting air travel across the continent... »
