For the few of you who keep track of such things, I am phasing out updating the Leisure section of Teleport City in order to focus the site on the reason everyone comes to it: film. The Leisure material is being migrated, along with a bunch of new stuff, to The Astounding Cabinet of Wonders:
http://teleport-city.com/wordpress/
Click on it now and you can see pictures of me climbing, which looks bad-ass as long as you don’t know that 1) that’s a picture of me realizing I have nowhere else to go, and 2) some barefoot little Bad News Bear looking kid scurried up the same route immediately after I dropped down.
But none of that will prepare you for A-Chan, the little girl who makes me hate not liking children, because she reminds me that some little kids are beyond awesome and at like age 7 have the climbing skills of a fearless gibbon.
And now, back to trying to finish my review of Pepe Le Moko and Algiers.
#1 by JessicaR on April 27, 2008 - 8:20 pm
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And as much as I always love reading your travel pieces it’s with a twinge of sadness as I realize I’ve done a big ol’ ten pound of nothing with my life. So far anyway.
#2 by KeithA on April 28, 2008 - 9:28 am
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It took me a while to get started. And anyway, the big trick to travel writing is to distill weeks, months, or years of activity into a single story, thus glossing over the days, weeks, months, and years of doing nothing, or of sitting in a hotel eating McDonalds, or in the floor at home eating hot wings and watching college basketball.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on April 29, 2008 - 9:18 am
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I’d better get cracking, or you’re going to outdo me in the side project department.