Pipsqueak Radio Tries to Make Castro Look Bad
Carl Hiaasen is not only a novelist, he’s a columnist for the Miami Herald. This controversial column about reporters being fired for writing for Radio & TV Marti ran today. “Over the last five years, while staff reporter Pablo Alfonso wrote columns and covered Cuba for El Nuevo Herald, he […]
Woman with Itchy Feet Builds a Factory in Ghana
I picked up a copy of the Princeton newspaper called US1, and found a story about a woman who is making a huge impact in her native Ghana by opening a new factory to produce a product for the US. Emelia Etse, known as Nana, grew up in Africa and […]
Random Thoughts from a Trip to Princeton
Cindy, my father Nat and I went into Princeton today. It was a shining, clear September day, and people were out in force. We passed a children’s book author’s show in front of the library. Under a tent were dozens of writers with their books displayed in front, and crowds […]
"Attention Must be Paid" to New Orleans in 2006
Janis Turk writes with eloquence and empathy about her beloved New Orleans in a new story on GoNOMAD.com. As she says, ‘attention must be paid,” and this piece really says it well. “It was once said of James Dean that he had an “insufficient hopefulness” — a phrase that often […]
I Want the Kind of Tapes that Hold Porn
On TV tonight was the story about Sony vs. JVC. It was “Modern Marvels,” and this episode was about the technology of the 1980s. They had Steve Wozniak, who put 10 million bucks into the US festival, which was a rock show with a sideshow of geeky stuff to gawk […]
Erice, Sicily Sounds Like the Place To Be
I spend a lot of time reading travel magazines and found a story in Budget Travel about 25 unknown places in Europe. Andrew Appleyard, international sales manager of Exodus, a U.K.-based tour company writes about Erice in Sicily. “Waves of conquerors–from Phoenicians to Normans, and everyone in between–have left their […]
The Shooter Checks in from Boise
Paul Shoul checked in from Boise, Idaho by email, and as usual he was exhuberant. Our favorite shooter tracked down the local celebrity who promised to show him all of Boise’s places and secrets within the first two hours of his arrival. I’m sure his story will be a lot […]
Cannibals Explain What Humans Taste Like
Paul Raffaele is an adventurer’s adventurer. He recently went to New Guinea far up river to meet with some of the world’s last cannibals, and wrote about it in Smithsonian Magazine. “Korowai children with beads about their necks come running to point and giggle as I stagger into the village—several […]