More menu fun

Joe is sad. The people who wrote the menu don't think very highly of him.


I think this was smažený sýr (fried cheese) of a particularly potent variety.

Skewered Chicken Breasts of a Chariman

It's often amusing to see what you get when you can only half divine what's on the menu. It's even more fun to see what the restaurant thinks you're ordering in English.



LilyAnned and said breasts. Maria wonders if there's something special in LA's beer that's not in hers.

Things I won't be seeing anymore

It's beginning to dawn on me that I don't really have anytime left here. That soon I won't be just wandering through this every day.

Bratislava Graf

I took a trip to Bratislava awhile back. Here's a quick digest of the graf that I saw while there.

This is one of the best stencils that I've seen. The pic may not do it justice, but I love the feeling, the emotion that you get from it.


Same person, note the lil' cube. Highly technical, and I do really appreciate that. It just looks cool, dudn't it?


Steampunk comic book superheroes? Saucy '60's revival band promotion? Who can tell?


Donny Darko as a cultural touchstone.

An itinerary

Note that I didn't say The Itinerary. It's subject to change, or at least the first part is. I run alone from Split to Athens, and from there I'm with people. This is the rough, absolutely gotta be there at this point, time line: I hit Split on the morning of Aug 2. I have to catch a bus in Tirana in the evening of Aug 9. The 13th was the only day to catch the ferry from Aghios Konstantinos. I arrive in Volos mid-morning on the 19th, and by that night I will be on a train from Thessaloniki to Istanbul. I fly in the wee hours of the morning on the 23rd back to Bratislava.


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oooOOooo....

I am somewhatverymuchhappily excited about this. It looks gorgeous.



And has anyone noticed that Master Reznor has enjoyed himself a bit of a resurgence of late? I hear him here, there, and everywhere.

There once was a house in Petrov.

Just down the way from my place, towards the Foreign Police, there's a place where a house once stood. It's nothing now, but there are a couple things there.

Pride of the 'hood, give it a name.


"Bicycle races are headed your way, so get ready for those beauties, oh yeah...."