Miscellaneous Debris – Archive

(Sorry for the delay. Never got around to this one) In Montreal, on every fair-weathered Sunday, people congregate at the foot of Mount Royal (and isn’t it strange to have that in English, in Montreal of all places?) for the Tam Tam. As the name implies, much drumming is involved. People come around with their […]

בשלב מסוים, דברים מאבדים את המשמעות שלהם כמסומן והם נהיים לחלוטין מסמן. בשלב הזה הוא כבר קיבל קיום עצמאי משלו, ויכול כבר להיות מסומן ע”י מסמן חדש לחלוטין.  

(This entry was originally written as a comment in someone else’s blog. This may explain stylistic inconsistencies as I try to clean it up, stretch it out and generally make it more palatable than the food it describes) The following statement will shock and surprise no-one: Cheap restaurant food is extremely greasy. Seriously, if you […]

Seattle’s Metro bus company provides a helpful tutorial, including a 16-minute video, of how to ride the bus. It starts with the basics – “Go to your closest bus stop”, moves on to useful everyday tips – “When the bus approaches, check the route number and destination (shown above the front window) to be sure […]

You can usually tell quite easily where different immigrants settled in the United States. The east coast is full of New Yorks and New Hampshires, Belfasts and Dovers galore. Louisiana has its Lafayette and New Orleans. Over in California you have your various Sans and Santas, and so forth. And in the north? You can find New […]

I was surprised at first to find so many motels in Livingston, Montana (pop. 7146). It was over an hour away from Yellowstone and seemed to have nothing to recommend itself. It was only when I saw a couple of taxidermists’ shops scattered among the hotels that I understood the reason. This here is huntin’ […]

The road to Yellowstone ran slowly through the great state of Wyoming, past towns like Moneta  (pop. 44) and Hiland (pop. 10). Wyoming, as I mentioned earlier, is huge. I only reached the vicinity of Yellowstone well after dark, and found myself a bed in Jackson Hole, some miles south of Yellowstone. Now Jackson Hole, this […]

I just stopped somewhere along the highway, on the side. My laptop power cable is falling apart and I needed to fix it again with electrical tape, but that’s not the point. The point is that I can’t even see a building anywhere around except what might be a farmhouse half a mile from here, […]