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• emily haines on writing in buenos aires

  Emily Haines, talking about writing Metric’s new album Fantasies, and how Argentina helped her get out of the “Um. . . what do I do now?” funk: [via swissmiss]

  21 Apr 2009 Music, Travel; no comments. permalink   

• india update

  I’m near death from uncomfortable guest beds, mosquito attacks, and the sadistic traffic patterns around the Bhat family’s home here in Pune. We leave tomorrow for Bhopal, via Indore. In the next several days, we three (Mom, the sis, and yours truly) will be witnessing or participating in several Sathe family events in the two [...]

  29 Dec 2008 Travel; one comment. permalink   

• “and what’s up with airline food?!”

  A collection of observations from the first leg of the ’08-’09 India trip. * I had no screaming babies on my IAD-AMS flight, but my seat-neighbor smelt as if he had done step aerobics in a compost heap before boarding the flight. And then, it seemed, he tried to cover it up with some Deep [...]

  22 Dec 2008 Travel; one comment. permalink