Archive for March, 2009
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-03-31
Goedemorgen! Hoe gaat het met jou? #
@OneLuvGurl Feeling better? #
[Blog] Many Italian tourist attractions are getting more savvy: http://s3nt.com/bp21 #
@wangmo I’m okay, just pulled into the office, having a diet Mt. Dew #
@BrendaBDSM Wow, college has obviously gotten a lot better! #
@paulapoundstone Because NYSE is harder to pronounce? #
RT @ibored: Leonardo DaVinci Recreated in Nails: [...]
March 31st, 2009 by admin
Many Italian tourist attractions are getting more savvy
We’ve been traveling to Italy for years (my first trip was 9 years ago). We’ve noticed that tourist attractions are getting more savvy.
For example, most churches and museums no longer allow photography inside, but they have nice full-color books available for purchase (when they don’t have a book they should allow photography – pet peeve, [...]
March 30th, 2009 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-03-30
Goedemorgen! Hoe gaat het met jou? #
If you’re into home automation with Macs, here’s one for you http://bit.ly/4B7xFn #
@MrsPBoutique And its a very nice pepper too – mazel tov, I hope you enjoyed the act of creating! #
RT @tanya25m: Courtney Love sues Twitter http://tr.im/hZ50 (via @vimoh) #
@katiepetef Good to hear, I’m okay, back from [...]
March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-03-29
RT @AmiraAlhussaini: Global Voices: Censoring Skin: From Saudi Arabia, Susie describes the ‘trouble.. http://tinyurl.com/dngpuj #
@AmiraAlhussaini Saudi censorship is serious – stopped me w/ computer tapes 25 yrs ago, tried 2 play em thought they wr religious #8216 #
Goed morgen! Hoe gaat het met jou? #
We’re back home, we slept (pills help so [...]
March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
A Short History of Siena
Title: A Short History of Siena
Author: Giuliano Catoni
Paperback
ISBN-10: 8877813199
ISBN-13: 978-8877813190
Bought this book in Siena with high hopes; unfortunately, it was mostly a waste of time to read this on the flight home from Italy.
The author’s writing style is scattered; at times I thought Catoni would have some unifying themes, but they wouldn’t congeal. It [...]
March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
China Underground
Title: China Underground
Author: Zachary Mexico
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Soft Skull Press (March 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593762232
ISBN-13: 978-1593762230
I bought this book for our trip to Italy from an independent LA bookstore.
And I loved it! I want to go to China more now than ever before.
There are 16 stories, each about one or more underground players that [...]
March 28th, 2009 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-03-28
Here’s the last day of our travelogue for our Italian vacation in 2009 http://bit.ly/r1DSO – we head home in a few hours #
I’ll be reposting pages as I scan stuff in (e.g. ticket stubs, book pages for items that we couldn’t photograph) after we get home #
And, oh yea – Goed morgen! Hoe [...]
March 27th, 2009 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-03-27
[Blog] The Taqwacores: http://s3nt.com/bp21 #
Goed Morgen! Hoe gaat het met jou? #
Here’s our first day in Bologna http://bit.ly/12jsRz including a statue of a woman squeezing water from her breasts! #
It looks like its going to be a nice day in Bologna today, in the 60sF and sunny! #
Its #followfriday so I’m first suggesting [...]
March 27th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Taqwacores
Title: The Taqwacores
Author: Michael Muhammad Knight
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Revised Edition edition (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593762291
ISBN-13: 978-1593762292
This book claims to be about Muslim punks, but in reality its a coming of age, and coming to his personal understanding of Islam, story of a Muslim young man. Yusef’s family is from Pakistan, [...]
March 26th, 2009 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2009-03-26
@Gerrigee The lasagna is to die for #
@alliasan Amsterdam is my fav place so far, but almost anywhere can make a great trip #
Finished another book, The Taqwacores – next up is Chinese Underground which I got at an indie bookstore in LA (they still exist there) #
@vardenrhode our destination today is Bologna, to see [...]
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March 31st, 2009 by alephnaught