At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

In the past two weeks I’ve seen three movies: Music and Lyrics, Reno 911!: Miami, The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen). Because my opinion, like that of all bloggers, totally matters, I will share it with everyone on the world-wide internets. Music and Lyrics This film was a cinematic masterpiece worthy of an [...]

I spent four effin’ hours watching The Real Housewives of Orange County on Bravo. For someone who only watches 2-3 hours of TV per week, this was completely effin’ bizarre behavior on my part. It started snowing this morning, kinda heavily at times for this Californian, so I parked myself on the couch, turned on [...]

Last Friday I had to purchase a snow scraper thingie to remove the 3-4 inch layer of ice that covered my urban assault vehicle. I had to remove the ice by Saturday morning, as the XTerra was going to be very “XTerra-ish” and haul us up the mountains to go snowboarding, like it does in [...]

I went snowboarding for the first time in my life yesterday. Actually, I’ve never been skiing, either, so it was my first attempt at a snow sport that didn’t involve a cheaply made plastic saucer you buy at Target on your way to the mountain house. I don’t know why I haven’t been snowboarding before [...]

We got a bit of snow down here in our nation’s capital. Just a few inches, but you woulda thought it was worse than upstate NY if you watched the local news. ICE! SNOW! PRECIPITATION! COLD! Still, I somehow managed to drag myself out of bed, from the safety of my warm blanket burrito, in [...]

We’ve all had the hilarious “cow-based” explanations of political systems/corporations/nations e-mail forward show up in our inboxes at one time or another. Crystal recently forwarded this new one by Mark Gilbert over at Bloomberg. A few of my favorites: Currency Market You have two cows. China has 1 trillion cows. Guess who sets the price [...]

It is a very rare instance when I don’t have my mp3 player with me. Even for a three block stroll to the local CVS, I need my own personal soundtrack. Sometimes, for whatever bizarre reason, I might find myself on the metro sans iPod/iRiver and think to myself, “Oh my god…no music…I might actually [...]

This recent post by Cincy prompted me to write about my own experience teaching foreigners English (albeit, in my case, indirectly). Back in the summer of 2003 I took Russian language classes at Moscow State University’s Center for International Education, a division of MGU formed to teach Russian to promising young foreign Communists back in [...]

I’m definitely going to Coachella. Just gotta get my plane ticket. Gonna listen to some RATM and RHCP and eat some In-N-Out and Mexican food with my SoCal friends. RATM guitarist Tom Morello was recently interviewed regarding the impending reunion: The star said that there was a political element to the band getting back together. [...]