Smooth Living Rule #5 There may be more in those brownies that just showed up on the kitchen table than anyone is saying.Be prepared for brownie madness! 08-12-08_2128.jpeg In any event, it was time to move on yesterday so I moved on to my friends Yadira, Shanna, and Stacey’s couch. Interesting transition from a house [...]
Vagobond Ear for Obama
11/30/08 Last night I went to the 50th birthday party of a friend and mentor. It was a very nice time. Of course, today is the day I officially become homeless again (though not friendless and so not without a place to hang my very nice hat) and so that is a bit odd. It’s [...]
Homeless Vagobond
I move out of my little apartment in Manoa tomorrow and the process of getting rid of stuff has been ongoing. Today, I decided to have a small garage sale. I woke up early and the weather was nice so I put an ad on craigslist and started to carry stuff outside. As soon as [...]
Vagobonding in San Francisco
11/22 Ditched out of the conference this afternoon and treated myself to a shoeshine from a great Italian guy named Carmelo. he made my $3.50 Johnston and Murphy shoes look like the $500 masterpieces they were before I owned them. We talked about James Bond and sunglasses. Incidentally, I saw the new James Bond movie [...]
San Francisco Anthropologists
11/21 If you don’t like being observed, San Francisco is definitely the wrong place to be this week. Thousands (I think but I didn’t count) of anthropologists from allover the world are here for the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference. Actually you may not have much to worry about, we are mostly watching each other, [...]
San Francisco Vagobond
11/20 On my way to San Francisco for a conference of the American Anthropological Association and I decided to conduct an experiment. What would it be like to put on my suit and fedora and travel like it was the 1930′s? Being ever so slightly socially anxious these days, this is sort of fun but [...]
