365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
Archive for December, 2010
Paradise Lost
A common tired lament read often here relates to how the youth of today are just, well, lost. I really believe that in many ways, they are. But why? I am not sure, but the clearest evidences reveal themselves in the culture, in music and other entertainment, and via technological addictions. There is just no “there” there. It [...]
Winners and Losers
They got a name for the winners in the world. I wanna a name when I lose….. No, can’t take credit for those lines. That would be the team of Fagen and Becker, better known as Steely Dan. Now there was a great soundtrack to life. What do the youth of today have? Lady Gaga? Listening to that [...]
“Bored” to be Cassady?
Cassady with Kerouac I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night….. Howl, Allen Ginsberg Recently re-read Jack Kerouac’s [...]
What the Beck?
Recently I was back in the U.S. for a short visit. Took a stroll through a bookstore as I am always prone to do. You see, many of those great books that one hears about are simply not available here. I tried Amazon once, but it didn’t work that well. So whenever I am back in [...]
Waxing Nostalgic….or, Just Waxing
Well I did make it here….to 50 that is. 50, five decades, half a century, 26,280,000 seconds….it does seem to be somewhat of an “arrival.” However, to say that I have finally “arrived” would be a bit much, because I am not at all sure to where. But there is a definite feeling that it [...]
