Liveblogging My Fear of Flying

Musings
May 122011

The Boeing 737-600 is part of the manufacturer’s Next Generation series. While only launched in early 1997, the series boasted the second lowest fatal-event rate of commercial aircraft until 2010, when a crash in Ethiopia bumped it down to third. Most airplane fatal events occur due to inclement weather or navigational mistakes near challenging high-ground terrain. Flying is the safest form of transportation. You are more likely to die in your shower than an airplane, or something like that. Fear of flying is the fear of losing control. The Boeing 737-600 is part of… The Boeing 737-600 is the last place I [...click for more...]

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The Serious Business of Burgers

Around The World, Odes to Winnipeg
Apr 092011

 Since approximately 90% of my recent blog traffic has been people searching Google for “Unburger,” and landing on my last musing about its impending arrival, I come bearing a gift. That’s right, it’s the Unburger menu, posted on their window on Stradbrook Avenue!     Apologies for the horrendous quality. I need a real camera. But you can mostly make-out the ingredients, which pledge fresh, never-frozen beef and all other sorts of burger-related goodness. They also are planning to serve some big salads and intriguing sides, including edamame.  My hungry-heart highlights: BEEF: The Drunken Aussie: Golden pineapple, Balsamic onion & tomat relish, [...click for more...]

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In The Streets of San Francisco

Around The World
Mar 302011

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At the top of sloping streets, the bay windows of pastel Victorians wink down on the Haight. There is a vintage store on the raggedy end of the street, a real vintage store with real vintage things, prim 1950s swing jackets and Jackie Kennedy pillboxes and square wartime pumps. Those things, and a $40 purple velvet blazer that skims my wrists, just how I like it. I am waiting to pay when the radio, all oldies all the time, eases into a familiar refrain. If you’re going… to Saaan… Fraaan… cisco… At the cash desk, the little brunette with the flowers in her hair [...click for more...]

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