Tag Archives: #tv

Penal

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

Visited the Museum of Sydney and learned about the First Fleet which founded the penal colony of Australia.The HMS Sirius was later wrecked on a reef off Norfolk Island.The first Governor of New South Wales, Admiral Arthur Phillip, sailed with … Continue reading →

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Leela

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Took the ferry across to Tarongo Zoo Sydney.  (Tried—and failed—not to think of Turanga Leela every time I heard the name spoken in a thick Australian accent.) I thought this logo was pretty cool.

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Peak FLASHBACK

Posted on October 19, 2018 by d4vid

A pre-selfie selfie.  (Also, pre-hashtag #pre-hashtag.) As far as Eric & I can remember, we took this while shooting Eric’s audition video for MTV‘s The Real World up at Universal Studios.  That’s a The Far Side t-shirt I’m wearing. This … Continue reading →

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Homeric

Posted on October 18, 2018 by d4vid

I had never heard of apple cider donuts before moving here.  I skipped breakfast and drove out to Westchester county to try them for the first time, opting for Salinger’s Orchard over the less appetizing Outhouse Orchard. Hot and covered … Continue reading →

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Branch

Posted on September 15, 2018 by d4vid

How has it taken me this long to realize that I’m living in the same Stamford as “the Stamford Branch” of Dunder-Miflin from the U.S. The Office? (On the left is the view out my window of the Long Island … Continue reading →

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Basics

Posted on September 7, 2018 by d4vid

My stuff still hasn’t arrived yet.  But at least I still have the most important thing:  teh Interwebz. Also, my living room without carpet and furniture has the most awesome reverb.  I keep whistling Angelo Badalamenti cues.

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Delight & Melancholy

Posted on April 4, 2018 by d4vid

Driving down a lonely New Mexico highway at dusk listening to “Wicked Game” filled me with a Lynchian sense of melancholy. My favorite feeling is delight.  But I’ve also always found a certain delight in melancholy.  Not all melancholy, perhaps, but … Continue reading →

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Sunny

Posted on March 18, 2018 by d4vid

As a fan of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I had to check out Paddy’s Pub.  Wait, no Guinness?  Fuck this shit, I’m out.

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Binge

Posted on October 1, 2017 by d4vid

My alcohol consumption was the clearest sign of my depression.  My slow reading pace was a more subtle sign.  The amount of media I was consuming at home was the least obvious, to me at least.  In addition to weekly … Continue reading →

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Ignore

Posted on February 20, 2017 by d4vid

My seat’s flexible reading light on the train from Hangzhou back to Shanghai looked like an alien.  Reminded me of this.

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Concubine

Posted on January 30, 2017 by d4vid

The Chinese word for “concubine” is 妃子 (fēizi).  Eli & I only learned this because it comes up so often in Chinese soap operas.  There is a famous story from the Qing Dynasty about one of Emperor Qianlong‘s consorts who was … Continue reading →

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Jest

Posted on January 14, 2017 by d4vid

And but so it wasn’t entirely unselfconsciously that I took my second daily dose of bupropion1 just before I finished reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, with its ending less like an exit through the gift shop and more like finding oneself at … Continue reading →

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Cantare

Posted on December 23, 2016 by d4vid

Kitty-corner from the Trevi Fountain lies the Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi.  I happened to be there when all the priests came out and started singing.  (Yes, one of the is playing an accordian.  Yes, one is holding a … Continue reading →

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Opulento

Posted on December 23, 2016 by d4vid

St. Peter’s Basilisk is one of the largest and most sacred churches in the two thousand year history of Christianity.  And it is ornate as fuck. This is Michelangelo‘s famous Pietà.  Its clunky, trapezoidal shape doesn’t have the stately contrapposto … Continue reading →

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Channels

Posted on October 4, 2016 by d4vid

In the spirit of the Datong dinner menu, I present to you the English translations of the cable channels available in my hotel here in Jiayuguan.  I present them unedited, including capitlization and punctuation. Gansu culture, film and television Gansu public City, … Continue reading →

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