News & Politics
Another day another bomb
Couple of grenades tossed into a Turkish cafe in Izmir – about two weeks from where I was on this jaunt. Ah. Where next? Fun times.
Jack Fisher
40something finding my way back to writing.
Travels
Sunken City of Kekova
uilt on a fault line that stretches from Lebanon to southern Turkey, Kekova sunk ~600 years ago, and as we peered through a spyglass into the water (watch those waves! steer! and the cliffs!), shattered pottery, the rounded corners of a harbor and remains of foundations shimmered into view.
Travels
It's all Kas, baby...
I spent the last two days on the beach: white pebbles trickling into a multi-hued sea. In the mornings, I hitched a ride out with one of the pension boys to the shore, about two kilometers outside of town, set up my umbrella and beach chair and fall asleep to the sounds of Jump Little Children.
Travels
Ghost Town Kid
He looked at me (the kid). "Hullo," I said. Ha ha ha said he. His grandmother, filling my entire eye-space, came out. I handed her a crumpled note.
Travels
Pastoral Dreamin'
We drove carelessly/carefreely and, apart from a sketched map, with no destinations in mind (of course, we didn't know of many destinations to be had). If life was a journey, well then this journey was to be life – at least for two days.
Travels
Gates of Knidos
I pulled the handbrake and inched towards the edge of the bluff. The Fiat stopped at the Gates of Knidos.
Tech & Etc
Map of War
Cool map that shows the history of empires in the Middle East. Word. More on the drive through Hiransolu Pennisula, the man with the gold teeth, the Ghost Town kid and his goats, and more -- as soon as I find an Engish keyboard. Oh yes, and another rant about
Fiction
The Story of Trees: Exercise One
But here's what Thông didn't do. He didn't thrust the mangoes into his pockets (on the side of his shorts, which were brown). He didn't climb down and exit the garden of old mister Lưu.
Travels
Gokova here and here is funtoosh
After the rain, the skies are penetratingly blue. And by that I mean, it's so blue that you can see inside the blues, that you can look and the different depths of blue will pull you in and up and on and on
News & Politics
Oh Falwell, how you amuse and terrify me
Well, golly. I didn't know that God was a Republican. And that he favors and talks to bigots and medicine men!
Travels
Ephesus
Oh, and it was also where we puffed hookah pipes and talked about how we liked to smoke hookah between heavy clouds of flavored smoke.
Travels
Troy: Not the Movie
The thing that struck me: all over Turkey, the pattern of archeological-robbery repeated itself, as it did and does in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and all the other places where Europeans and Western scholars have gone.