It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.

The Eternal Sadness of the Leprechauns

In St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2013 at 3:22 pm

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I was driving my outer space rocket ship into the Magoo Cluster when I sighted a band of scintillating green floating in space. I pulled up alongside and slowed down to sub-atomic transport-drive rate. I looked out the passenger window and it was then I saw them.

Leprechauns.

St. David’s Day

In Dewi Sant, St. David's Day on March 1, 2013 at 9:50 pm

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant, as they say in the elderly country. It’s St. David’s Day and you know what that means. We celebrate on this day the foisting by the Welsh upon the Irish of Patrick, a real dick by all accounts. We also honor the common sense, decency and self-respect of St. David, Wales’s patron saint, famous for inventing the horse, the submarine, Buddhism and rounding up.

Nairobi: Connection as Destination

In Africa, Kenya, Nairobi, Travel on December 19, 2012 at 7:16 pm

View of Nairobi  from iHub balcony

Sometimes a jump-off area is just that, a place to provision or transfer to your real destination. But sometimes it’s a destination in itself, one that is glossed over by travelers intent on getting the journey over with so the trip can begin. Nairobi is one of the latter places. Inauspiciously founded where two train lines met in a marsh, it has transitioned into a fascinating, and under-appreciated city.

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