From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Map of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

July 30, 2009

The St. Croix rental car didn’t come with a GPS — none of them did — and for a moment we sat there stunned, trying to remember how people navigated strange islands without directions beamed down from above. How do we find the hotel? I asked the rental counter attendant. Maps, she said, and handed [...]

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St. Croix

July 21, 2009
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there ought to be a an “Overheard in Las Vegas” site too

July 6, 2009

Overheard in Las Vegas: 1. man sitting at a slot machine at Caesar’s Palace: “I gotta get my lawn mower back out of hock” 2. man to friend passing by a ferrari and lamborghini outside the Venetian: “there’s valet, and then there’s valet” 3. poolside white man to his wife: “god made shadows for crackers [...]

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