Aprll 19, 2022 Back from San Miguel de Allende. Me-he-co. Back to the same ol’, same ol’. LA, California. Going on 40 years now! Like most trips, upon your inevitable return, why does it always seem - so exactly the same? Like you were never gone at all? Whether it was nine days or ten, like this trip, or two, three, or sometimes even eight months, like others, when you come “home”, it’s almost always like - you were never away. Everything is so familiar. Nothing has changed - no matter how rich, how challenging, how eventful, how life-chang
Anthony Bourdain, a Reflective Appreciation
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Me and Miles at Slugs’ in the Far East
I’m walking down an empty, dark street in Alphabet City somewhere in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. I’m looking for Slugs’ in the Far East, the coolest jazz club in New York, at 242 East Third Street between Avenues B and C. Hence the moniker “Alphabet City”. It’s the late 1960s and the neighborhood is run down and dilapidated, sporting six-floor walkup tenement buildings with broken windows, a preying ground for desperate junkies who rove the streets like hungry jackals. I’m still a college student, but I’m in the process of metamorphosing from a Baby Boom suburban kid
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Itinerant Days at NYC’s Hotel Woodward
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Friendships Across the Aisle
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Travels with Wolfie, Pre-quel
It was a very good year 1969 Pre-yuppie Still sixties Easy rider No "chill" yet, big or otherwise We thought that we could re-invent the world Make a difference That we could change the order of things Not become part of some blue jean fashion revival Nostalgically chic Some twenty or forty years later Helping sell bell bottoms and ties dies on Telegraph Avenue and Rodeo Drive Before JFK, RFK, and MLK were Drives, Airports, and holidays When they were just fallen leaders, grieved for by our nation Things weren't so squeak
Travels with Wolfie, Prologue
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Edinburgh, 1988, Chapter 1, A Dream Come True
It's August, 1988. I'm almost 41 years old and I'm living in white bread Santa Monica, waiting for a black stretch limousine to pick me up to take me to LAX. It's the first, and probably the only, limousine I will ever take in my life, and in less than 12 hours, I will be in Edinburgh, capital of proud, tartan Scotland, and home to the largest arts festival in the world. Founded in 1947, the same year I was born, the Edinburgh Festival and the even larger Festival Fringe hosts them all: theater, dance, jazz, tv, folk music, comedy, all the aural and moving arts. For three weeks every year,