Walking across the Charles Bridge that dark morning was the loneliest I’ve been in my life. My so-called friends had “borrowed” my last crowns for a cab ride home. It was the night after New Year’s, where we had spent the holiday in some village outside of Prague, where donkeys still pulled carts down the [...]
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The Purple Parka
Posted in Prague on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In Search of… Chris Beneke
Posted in Art, Endangered Species, Music, Prague on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier I wrote about Chris Beneke’s long lasting impact on me, and that I still haven’t forgotten his music that I heard in Prague all these years later. Well, it turns out, I’m not even making this up. I was wondering if maybe my memory was foggy. Well, after some quick Internet research, I have found a [...]
The Last Honest Folk Song
Posted in Prague, tagged Prague on January 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The Last Honest Folk Song was written by Chris Beneke in Prague. Chris Beneke had a terrible crush on Stella Groves, who lived upstairs from me and down the hall in the Hotel Dům in the Modřany district of Prague. We were very much in the outskirts of Prague. If you didn’t look at all [...]
I Almost Wrote this Letter to Vaclav Klaus
Posted in Politics, Prague, Propaganda, Random Ramblings on April 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
But I didn’t. This is what he said that got my underwear all up in a wad. Taken from the Drudge Report: Q: Don’t you believe that we’re ruining our planet? A: I will pretend that I haven’t heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can’t. [...]
Trapped in the Hotel DUM
Posted in Prague, Travel on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I will never forget my mother’s screams when I called on the payphone. “Where are you?” she said. “Relax, Mom. I’m in the Hotel DUM.” Then came the screams.
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