THE JO-TEL … where long-form blogging comes to die

Yesterday walking along Adeline Street in Berkeley I saw this old banner. Its an appropriate symbol for that area. If you look at the picture you’ll notice that above the painted over Wilton’s text a Neon Liquor sign has been installed. I like the symbolism of this, its pretty emblematic [...]

I’m trying to get a new pair of shoes right now. Shoes are really expensive, at least legitimate brands purchased in the US are. Things like clothes and shoes are really cheap in other parts of the world. I was looking at vans shoes online and I was instantly taken back to [...]

Or rather I will be moving. Moving to Santa Barbara for graduate school. I don’t know much about Santa Barbara other than it is a city of many golf courses which I hate and many people who use golf courses. It also has a downtown with strict development standards that make it [...]

Johnny reports in cryptically from abroad below and here. One question: Johnny D, can you move now? If not, remember, stillness is the move, or so the Dirty Projectors would have you believe.
I’m in Krabi, Thailand right now. Last night I went to bed super tired, then woke up in [...]

Traveling Literature
Setting yourself down in the cool wake kissed shade of a gazebo nestled at the end of a small dock intended for kayakers, picking up a haggard manuscript gingerly freed from the wrestless confines of the bag at my side, thumbing it open. The bookmark, the last page of the abused novel, roughly torn [...]

The Flaura and Fauna of Pisco, Peru
I´m watching a small gnat wander across the screen of the internet terminal in my hostel in Pisco. I´m pretty sure its movement is constrained to moving in one direction for a finite unit of distance, at which point it randomly changes direction. At each change in direction it [...]

So the old Jo-Tel has been more or less archived. I’ve timestamped each month so that you can click the archives tab and and they should all be there, going back to 2004. There are some loose ends to tie up; some of the pages on the old Jo-Tel, such as all of [...]

Having lived in one of the most beautiful cities in the world for five years, I am still awed by the idiomatic grace of San Francisco’s Victorian Architecture. San Francisco Victorians provide proof that prefabricated housing can offer just as much character to a neighborhood than the most ostentatious custom homes. As a [...]

One from The Vault, in celebration of… whatever.
Ladies and gentlemen…

if the fortunes in fortune cookies actually yielded the fortunes they predict, then I would eat a lot more fortune cookies.