First, in the absolutely-must-spread-the-word-about-before-I-forget category: Chin Inteji. That’s a guy’s name: he is, in fact, a musician whom I heard perform a few nights ago at a place called the Media Club. Just walked in there on an open mike night on my way back to the hotel, and discovered this guy. […]
Milinda’s Questions
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Back in the world
I’m blogging this afternoon from the 4th floor of the Vancouver Public Library. The VPL is housed in Library Square, an impressive structure that includes space for an office complex, shops and restaurants, as well as the library itself.
The 10-day vipassana retreat in Merritt was my sixth in the tradition taught by Goenka-ji. […]
Dateline Vancouver
Blogging today from the lounge on the fourth floor of the YWCA Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. I recommend the Y to travellers visiting this city. It combines postindustrial standards of hypercleanliness, bed-and-breakfast standards of gemuetlichheit, Japanese standards of efficient use of space, and (just for those who need to feel as though […]
Going mobile
Doing something for the first time right now: posting via my laptop, at an away-from-home wi-fi hotspot. To be specific, I’m at Texpresso Coffee House in Austin, located in Anderson Village Shopping Center, across the parking lot from the Alamo Village Draft House. Texpresso is, by a few hundred yards, the closest coffee […]
