Wow. So, Amy and I just won the massive Princeton parli debate tournament for the second year running. And, as I only realized after the fact, we managed to do so arguing libertarian positions in every single round, even on opposition! We got to defend fun stuff like gun ownership, “natural” rights (I hate that […]

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Well, I’m on the plane back to the good ol’ U.S.S.A., and that finally gives me some time (as long as the battery lasts, anyway) with which to regale you all with tales of my adventures. I know, I know, I’ve been a blog-slacker; but in fairness, Paris and Madrid are significantly more fun to […]

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Oy, what a lot of updating to do… Well; I suppose the main thing I’ve learned so far is that, although Campers are generally fabulous shoes, if your itinerary involves walking the cobbled streets of Europe’s major cities for hours each day, then dancing all night… buy a pair of trainers. Especially if you’re gonna […]

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Greetings from Prague, O my Brothers! Your humble narrator flew out of Madrid yesterday and, as you can viddy by my slovos, finally had a chance to read A Clockwork Orange. After a stop in Frankfurt, where I found myself having a drink with an Iranian engineer, to whom I apologized for my obnoxious country, […]

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Just got back from the Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza, where they were showing an exhibition of George Braques paintings, and a sumptuous late-lunch at a vegetarian place in midtown Madrid with my aunt. I leave for Prague tomorrow morning, and am pondering whether to further explore the Madrid nightlife, or stay here, get some work done, and […]

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It’s been a pretty busy three days, so I suppose I’ll run through it chronologically. If you’re here for politics content & couldn’t care less about my barhopping, skip to the 2nd section below. I’m probably going to use an expanded version of that account of the Barcelona protests as my LFB column next week. […]

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First of all, I think I may come back to Spain at some point to do nothing but drive around. The drive up the A-7 from Valencia was a straight shot of 170km/h the whole way (I have no idea what that is in mph, which made it that much more fun — that seems […]

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Hilarity. I’m off to Barcelona. My column will probably be posted around noon EST at LFB, if you’re interested. It’s entitled “I Am Not Snidely Whiplash.” Enjoy.

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sub-Text, and why Damian rocks… As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a project called sub-Text, a media crit webzine I hope to launch in the not-too-distant future. Believe it or not, the idea is not to just push my own political agenda, a-la FAIR or AIM, but rather to have a […]

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Even my recreation turns into politics. Iâ??m at my familyâ??s house in Oliva, and had been planning to drive to Barcelona early this week. Originally, my motivation was to go catch The Strokes on Friday. But my friends Joseán & Laura Nuñez are in a band, “Laboratorio Funk,” and theyâ??re playing in Valencia the same […]

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