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The Wastivore's Dilemma: July 2009
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Saturday, July 18, 2009. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Capitol Reef. I have a day off from farm work, and I drive to Capitol Reef. I park my car at the Chimney Rock trailhead, where the stream originates, and plunge into the canyon. The stream eventually peters out in a culvert beneath the highway, about six miles from the trailhead. Now what? I don’t feel like walking upstream to my car, and those falls seem impassable anyway. I pause to assess my options, then clamber out of the streambed, cross...Rarely ...
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: January 2010
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Friday, January 29, 2010. The Darunsikkhalai School of Innovative Learning: Part One. I’ve been teaching at DSIL for nearly a month now, and so I feel qualified to expound on the nature of my job and the efficacy of this school. Offering a few snap judgments, though, won’t be easy: DSIL operates under a complex and opaque educational doctrine, a set of uniquely Thai cultural mores, and –. Which delights 'em endlessly. How the school is supposed to work. Children learn than with what they learn. For some ...
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: August 2009
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Sunday, August 30, 2009. The Elements of Style (when it comes to grizz stories). A bad-ass Yellowstone grizz. If only this picture were mine. It's actually courtesy of Fox News;. I feel a little nauseous patronizing their website.). Every grizz story must contain a few key pieces of information to ensure verisimilitude; attempting to recount a grizz encounter without addressing all these details will expose you to suspicion of fraud. Your handy guide to grizz story-telling:. Less than 300 pounds: meh.
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Guest Post: The Haikustivore. Elise rewrites my blog. Concisely. The Online Sports Journal. Jake Tuber owns me. 8220;The Hyperbolic Chamber”. Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. DSIL’s Meditation Retreat: Or, How I Learned to Quit Thinking and Accept the Pain. I can’t meditate. Because I am too gangly. A Layman’s Explanation of Thailand’s Political Situation. Red and Yellow Shirts. Taksin skypes Reds from Dubai. The Darunsikkhalai School for Innovative Learning.
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: June 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009. Columbus, Ohio (June 22):. I’m standing in the living room of another person’s house, watching other people play beer pong. That’s an inauspicious place, I admit, to start a story, let alone a blog. I’d rather my in media res. Couch surfing: that’s what I’m doing here in Columbus, crashing at the apartment of an Ohio State graduate named Ryan on my way out west. In that sentence is actually a we. Thailand, with customs that feel now even more alien, hangs on the horizon. The ball n...
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The Online Sports Journal. I recently signed on to write fortnightly posts for Jake Tuber's online sports journal under the pen name Cerrano Want to Bat. If you haven't been getting your fill of insightful, lapidary writing on Wastivore, check out my first piece for The Hyperbolic Chamber. About my emotional connection to pitcher Barry Zito. The site is going to be chock-full of great sports writing, so please check in occasionally. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: May 2010
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Monday, May 24, 2010. DSIL's Meditation Retreat: Or, How I Learned to Quit Thinking and Accept the Pain. One thing I decidedly am not is: flexible. So, one thing I’m decidedly not cut out for is: meditation. Most people pursue meditation to heighten spirituality, achieve mental clarity, or score hippie chicks; but the fruit that the Darunsikkhalai School of Innovative Learning. Apparently expected the retreat to bear were more pragmatic. Our school, you see, is run by ex-businessmen with little backg...
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: DSIL's Meditation Retreat: Or, How I Learned to Quit Thinking and Accept the Pain
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Monday, May 24, 2010. DSIL's Meditation Retreat: Or, How I Learned to Quit Thinking and Accept the Pain. One thing I decidedly am not is: flexible. So, one thing I’m decidedly not cut out for is: meditation. Most people pursue meditation to heighten spirituality, achieve mental clarity, or score hippie chicks; but the fruit that the Darunsikkhalai School of Innovative Learning. Apparently expected the retreat to bear were more pragmatic. Our school, you see, is run by ex-businessmen with little backg...
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The Wastivore's Dilemma: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Smoke on the Water. A week later, nine thousand acres have been consumed, the southern half of the park is effectively closed, and Lake Village, where I live, is on the brink of evacuation. I write this post from my trailer bedroom, only a few miles north of the blaze. I, and all of my fisheries coworkers, are ad hoc (? Sunset at Mary Bay. Fires may be destructive, but they're sure photogenic. The sun rises through a veil of smoke at Bridge Bay Marina. The otters in the third...
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