Hong Kong 31 Days in Exile The ignorance of circumstantial travel produces opinions that feel certain even if they are not exactly logically defensible. It is in this way that I have come to believe that I could be happy living in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. I like the cities — simple as that. I’m …
Category: Personal Writings
Murakami and Katrina
Hong Kong 31 Days in Exile! I don’t remember now why I had picked this book up at Kramer’s in DuPont Circle in DC. Impulse? Probably. Saw it on a shelf and decided that it would be interesting and that it was something I did not now much about. I was probably more attracted to its …
9/11?
San Francisco 30 Days in Exile People keep comparing the destruction of New Orleans with the terrorism of 9/11. Both were horrible but the analogy does no one a service. Both were terrible tragedies. 9/11 had a higher death count, while Katrina is still uncovering its dead. The World Trade Center was largely a place …