About
I'm an expat Californian who is obsessed with traveling to strange and exotic destinations in the former Communist Bloc. I also like tacos, surfing, and the geopolitics of oil. Washington, D.C. is currently my home, but I'm looking to break out of this fetid swamp someday. Read more about me here, check out my photo album, or send me an e-mail.
Currently...
Located in:
Reading: Telex From Cuba
Watching: Nothing, really
Listening to: Jack's Mannequin, Rage Against the Machine, Arcade Fire, Gogol Bordello, The Clash
Playing: Soccer and Wiffleball (finally!)
Reading: Telex From Cuba
Watching: Nothing, really
Listening to: Jack's Mannequin, Rage Against the Machine, Arcade Fire, Gogol Bordello, The Clash
Playing: Soccer and Wiffleball (finally!)
Categories
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Baseball
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- California
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- Chernobyl Tour 2007
- Coachella Valley
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Egypt
- Egypt 2005
- Energy
- Environment
- France
- GWU
- Georgia
- Hawaii 2007
- Hungary
- In-N-Out Burger
- Ireland
- Italy
- LSE
- Mexican Food
- Moblog
- Montenegro
- Movies
- Music
- Poland
- Politics
- Russia & the Former USSR
- Russia 2003
- South Caucasus 2006
- Surfing
- Technology
- Travel
- Travel (International)
- Travel (USA)
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- Ukraine/Poland 2007
- United Kingdom
- Washington DC
- Whatev
- Wiffleball
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- ConocoPhillips refinery tour
- Gazprom: "the Kremlin’s wallet"
- Future vacation destinations
- This is how the Russians celebrate my birthday
- Yeah, my roommates are pretty awesome
- Boris Johnson puts an end to the Circle Line Party
- Cheated by the fortune cookie industry
- "Lindsay, your strengths and weaknesses, as voted by your friends"
- Nord Stream delays
- Schenley Hell
- Huh?
- I'd like to travel with these guys
- BTC Pipeline wine
- Skechers Cali Gear: An insult to the Great State of California
- Lukashenko sends grads to contaminated areas
- Monster dog devours Texas
- They might stage an intervention
- UES: "We're no Enron"
- Win-win for oil co. and enviros in Santa Barbara
- Eating like a Texan, part II: Chicken fried bacon roadtrip
- Undisputed Wii Boxing Champion of the World (or, Great Falls, Virginia)
- Shoulda stayed in Houston
- Eating like a Texan
- An affront to my proletarian sensibilities
- "Big Oil" testifies before Congress
- "Our arrival time at Washington Nationals Airport..."
- Denver
- Game on
- "If you fail to stop the Germans getting our oil, you will be shot. And when we have thrown the invader out, if we cannot restart production, we will shoot you again."
- Russia's latest export: Woolly mammoth tusks
- Houston: It's worth it?
- Efraim Diveroli has no friends
- AEY Inc. WTF?
- Tucker!
- I fought the law and I won
- Urban oil fields in SoCal
- Disgraceful, yet not at all surprising
- Peeps Show
- The quagga mussel invasion is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face
- Oil Spies!
- Putin on Nabucco
- Required reading: March 16, 2008 (Energy edition)
- Lessons from the Balkans: How to express your displeasure with a Western military alliance
- Vatican: Pollution is a "sin"
- Lessons from the former Soviet Union: How to make an ice cream sundae
- In-N-Out goes on an expansion binge
- BP's "neighborhood watch" program for the BTC pipeline
- Nixon, Kissinger, and Operation Giant Lance
- Lessons from the former Soviet Union: How to park your car in Kiev
- Azerbaijan: The nicer side of Baku
- Schwarzenegger's daily commute
- Lessons from the former Soviet Union: How to fix a leaking pipe in Yerevan
- Italy: The workboats of Venice
- Ben Stein on Big Oil, again
- More on Medvedev
- Gotta place an order for a new Medvedev portrait
- The history behind "I drink your milkshake"
- In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue?
- SNL: I Drink Your Milkshake
- In-N-Out University
- Sold the last of my furniture today
- Pink's Hot Dogs
- Should five percent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all
- Where do I send my resume?
- Whenever I hear someone's phone
- Lunch
- Breakfast of champions
- SoCal for the weekend
- Roommate #3
- I think they moved out to the suburbs, and now they're blonde, bland, middle-class Republican wives
- Required reading: February 7, 2008 (News that makes my brain explode edition)
- You can put away those "Save Trestles" t-shirts now
- Arrested Development movie?
- This ain't the SAT, kid
- "What is wrong with this city?"
- More half smoke art at Ben's Chili Bowl
- Flip flops: The TSA responds!
- Clooney at the UN
- Strongbow Cider in DC: Brickskeller
- Is there a Marriott in Ashgabat?
- The TSA Blog: Your tax dollars at work
- What will you do with your rebate check?
- Hawaii: Whale Watching off the Kohala Coast
- Well, that's comforting
- I can't wait for my $800 tax rebate!
- Coachella 2008 Lineup released
- Pripyat in "Life After People"
- New Hampshire Reflections
- "When can you start?"
- With friends like these...
- A sign from the internet gods
- Or you could just build a fence...
- Hawaii: Flying over the Kīlauea volcano
- "That was one goddamn hell of a show"
- Gonna add this one to my journalism portfolio
- Hawaii: Anaeho’omalu Bay
- My $1,200 crispy chipotle chicken sandwich
- What can you do with an $8 ukulele?
- Hawaiian breakfast
- My new ride
- Meli Kalikimaka
- Russia and 'Stans sign pipeline deal
- Most people looked at him with terror and with fear, but to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
- Hawaiian islands beckon, and I'll be back here someday, I reckon
- Different Medvedev, dude
- Scrabulous upgrade makes the NYTimes
- London photos: Buckingham Palace / Kensington Gardens / Etc.
- Glacier Surfing
- Flickr moblog test post
- Selected thoughts while riding the DC metro, Volume I
- Dmitry Medvedev: Russia's next President
- Another reason to love Google: GMail and AIM integration
- Panel Discussion with Gazprom's Alexander Medvedev
- Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
- Two hours and a bottle of whiskey
- Caspian energy news
- "Budapest? I've never even heard of that."
- United Russia's GOTV activities
- Because he can
- CCCP shirts now fashionable
- Missing Romanovs found
- I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight on a bed of California stars
- Required reading: November 19, 2007
- Required reading: November 18, 2007 (Oil spill edition)
- The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea
- They are not helicopter parents, but they do read this blog
- Fifty years of this stuff ahead of me
- London School of Evil
- By the time I get to Arizona
- Arizona
- Kvass!
- El Petroleo es Nuestro
- Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent, To blow up King and Parli'ment
- Antietam National Battlefield
- Charlie Wilson's War
- I've got to admit it's getting better, a little better all the time
- Halloween in the city (no, this kevlar vest is not a costume accessory)
- NaBloPoMo 2007
- MARCH ON THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
- One biiiillion barrels
- The infamous In-N-Out 100x100
- Environmental Economics: Natural Resource Curse Hypothesis / European Union Emission Trading Scheme
- Google Maps travel mashup
- Feds hate wiffleball
- Heckuva job, FEMA
- Airplanes!
- Reprogramming that basic Russian DNA
- Saint Seraphim: Patron Saint of the Russian nuclear forces
- Looking ahead: Pyongyang and Mount K
- Super Bowl in London?
- Strongbow (AND Russky Standart) in DC: Sherry's Wine & Liquor
- Surfing in Russia
- Required reading: October 10, 2007 (Iraq / Armenia / Georgia / Etc.)
- The Chernobyl Riviera?
- Juicy oil from faraway places, all for the little guy
- Ukraine/Poland '07 Roundup
- Wieliczka Salt Mine: Goin' Deeper Underground
- Auschwitz
- Pepco needs a new slogan
- Kraków
- California Accent
- Insert obligatory yet highly cliché "Big Brother is watching you" title here
- Former Soviet republics top list of "World's Most Polluted Places"
- Houston, revisited
- Avast ye land lubbers!
- How a lazy Sovietologist chooses nail polish
- D.C. the fourth "bloggiest" city in America
- Six years ago in D.C.
- Schastlivy Vmeste: Al Bundy moves to Russia
- "There Will Be Blood" trailer
- Holiday From Real
- Belated Blog Day '07
- Zesty Fried Guacamole Bites
- A little R&R in the Golden State
- Work stopped at Cash All Gone, er, Kashagan
- Starbucks to open in Moscow
- Play that funky music white boy
- Cold showers build character
- Poland Photos: Krakow / Auschwitz-Birkenau / Wieliczka Salt Mine
- While souvenir shopping in Russia, it's best to stick to matryoshkas and McLenin t-shirts
- Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves)
- Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many dangerous people who wanna take things from Americans, and also kidnap them. Good night!
- I hope she hears her husband's voice, Telling her she's coming home
- Kiev: You've seen one Rodina Mat, you've seen 'em all
- Palm Desert as a model for energy conservation?
- Required reading: July 31, 2007
- Ukraine Photos: Kiev
- Kiev: Post-Chernobyl food run/4th of July dinner (or how I flew 6000 miles to partake in Oreo Madness)
- Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part IV: Chisto?
- Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part III: The ghosts of Pripyat
- Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part II: Liquidators Memorial / Kopachi / Catfish / Reactor 4
- Dispatches from Chernobyl, Part I: Dude, where's your Geiger counter?
- Ukraine Photos: Touring the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- LOT – The airline of the proletariat
- I need a vacation from my vacation
- Off to the former Communist Bloc
- Required reading: June 27, 2007
- Some Coachella pics
- This week's required reading: June 17-24, 2007
- An Army Without Leaders: The Purges of the Red Army Officer Corps, 1937-38
- International Surfing Day
- The Watergate burglaries and HoJo's room 419
- I realize that the CVS at 14th and Irving is understaffed, but...
- Taqueria Nacionale: Californian and Texan approved
- The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone National Wildlife Refuge
- It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor
- Soviet Arcade Games
- D.C. story of the day
- Note to the Edwards staff: Hummer driving teens not ideal campaign prop
- Hot wiffleball action shots
- Hidden Palms WTF?
- 6 Innings with yours truly
- Memorial Day
- Yushchenko orders troops to Kiev
- We are all just prisoners here, of our own device
- Scariest job in the world?
- I'd rather live in a zombie infested London than Washington, DC
- Late night creativity at Ben's Chili Bowl
- "How are you working to save the earth?"
- Great footage of Rage Against the Machine at Coachella
- I survived the Battle of Coachella and all I got was this overpriced t-shirt
- Off to Coachella tomorrow
- This blog is officially carbon neutral
- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
- Polar Bears and Playground Politics
- Back to Eastern Europe this summer
- Raise your hand if you had to do a school project on Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire"
- Lindsay wants!
- Monotony, defined
- New t-shirt
- In a battle between an XTerra and a fencepost, there are no clear winners
- Deep Thoughts
- Blame California
- A movie to look forward to: "There Will Be Blood"
- The California State Quarter sucks
- Mister blue sky please tell us why you had to hide away for so long
- London photos: When not in class, we...
- Stranded Californian ISO surfable waves
- Top 5 songs that "hit" me
- London photos: Madame Tussauds
- Get to St. Pete before fugly Gazprom City does
- Music and Lyrics / Reno 911!: Miami / The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
- I'm so ashamed of myself
- My weapon of choice for Columbia Heights livin'
- Lindsay finally attempts to snowboard
- I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA
- Comrade, those cows are an environmental hazard
- Top 5 covers
- Eh, kak po-russki "Dude"?
- Greenlight for Coachella
- Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God
- To Coachella or not to Coachella?
- OMGWTF happened to lindsayfincher.com?
- California Über Alles, Über Alles, California! We're coming for you, Texas
- Of Mice and Cowards
- 2006 Year in Review Extravaganza!!!!!!!! (with photos!)
- Got a gun. Fact I got two. That's OK man 'cause I love god
- The Last Supper
- Bouldering in Joshua Tree
- Mount Everest ain't got nothin' on me
- Saying goodbye to Jerry
- Broke a golf club today
- This town is our town, it is so glamorous
- Christmas in SoCal
- Back in CA
- LSE's drastic drop in the rankings can be attributed to one person
- President-for-Life of Turkmenistan most likely dead now, for real
- Concerns about the world getting warmer, the people thought they were just being rewarded
- Unfortunately, "IH8THISEFFINCITY" is greater than the allowed seven characters
- I hereby nominate George Clooney for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it
- The South Caucasus: Making the most of the true British climate
- A barrel of your finest crude, please
- ATTENTION: I AM GOING BACK TO CALIFORNIA FOR CHRISTMAS
- The South Caucasus: Museums / Lake Sevan / Taxicab Confessions: Armenia
- The South Caucasus: Ignoring U.S. State Department travel warnings on the long road back to Yerevan
- So goodbye California, It's been really nice
- Schadenfreude
- Throw the bums out
- Pain is...
- This is my XTerra. There are many like it but this one is mine.
- In Houston again
- Kim Jong Il watches 'Desperate Housewives'
- Test drove the Nissan XTerra today
- Apparently flips flops are a threat to national security
- The South Caucasus: Old Town Baku, the polluted Caspian, and conversations with an Azeri carpet salesman
- The Longest Day
- It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should
- The South Caucasus: From Tbilisi to Baku
- Yeah, that was me
- The South Caucasus: This is the story of 5 girls who went on a Road trip to Tbilisi
- The South Caucasus: Military hardware, art, and too much vodka
- The South Caucasus: Bribes, monasteries, and a broken down van
- The South Caucasus: Breakfast in London and a nightcap in Yerevan
- 364 photos of South Kavkaz goodness
- Katie, 1993 - 2006
- I will bring you stories and bleary-eyed photos, like a regular tourist
- "Don't get shot"
- Back from Pittsburgh
- What's so great about dumb ol' Houston?
- Whereupon my D in high school chemistry comes back to haunt me
- Back from Houston...off to NYC
- You know you're in Houston when...
- Off to Texas...again
- This one time, in Cardiff...
- You can have my flip-flops when you pry them from my cold dead feet
- Strongbow Cider in DC: Whole Foods
- Back from NYC, obviously
- NYC for the weekend
- Cuban Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 515 can't hold me back for long
- Going to Armenia this summer
- Oh how sweet it is!
- Dems' dog and pony show at your local Exxon
- I messed with Texas
- NYTimes: How Dare They Use Our Oil!
- The stars at night, are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas
- Happy Easter
- A beautiful day for a ballgame
- The Democratic Party sucks
- So goodbye California, It's really been nice
- This week in the Former Soviet Union: 03/05/06 - 03/19/06
- I already have my Halloween costume...do you?
- This week in the Former Soviet Union: 02/27/06 - 03/05/06
- I got a job...
- This week in the Former Soviet Union: 02/20/06 - 02/26/06
- Most dangerous travel destinations for 2006
- Give in to The Desert... You’re Surrounded
- This week in the Former Soviet Union: 02/13/06 - 02/19/06
- Good Mexican food in D.C.: Tacos Pepito's Bakery
- Career opportunities are the ones that never knock / Every job they offer you is to keep out the dock
- Washington, D.C., It's paradise to me!
- Day Trip to Los Angeles: Soviet Submarine / Pink's Hot Dog stand / La Brea Tar Pits
- Jason is back from Iraq
- Week in review
- SuperShuttle ride from hell
- LSE Grad week photos
- Maybe you should come to the District, 'cause two years is nothing more than a time to reset the score
- For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne
- LA Times: "Russia Wields Its New Arsenal: Fuel"
- I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I've seen on TV
- Soviet Christmas and New Years cards
- My year in London gone by, I miss it so
- London calling to the faraway towns
- Bad news for the surf industry
- Drunk LSE students form conga line, cause £30,000 worth of damage
- I love San Francisco
- San Francisco for the weekend
- Why I dislike college sports
- One last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer
- Thanksgiving and "Black Friday"
- LA Times on the CA National Guard
- Small houses on wheels and other American peculiarities
- UK photos: Stonehenge, Bath, and Windsor Castle
- My first Young Republicans meeting
- Attention: This blog is NOT written by the family butler
- All set
- Moving to a new host
- Knott's Scary Farm
- It's official
- In search of a new host
- Now go and show the world what the valleys already know
- Tag, you're it
- C-H-O-K-E
- ALCS game 3
- The best part of last night's game...
- Only at GWU...
- Lenin: To bury or not to bury?
- Put me in, coach
- Yes, I'm alive
- Last Days in London
- Now here's a company I'd like to work for
- Brownie goes back to DC
- Guess who is coming to LSE....
- D-Day (Dissertation Day)
- Attention Clarkies
- I've been driving a mid sized car, I never hurt anyone - Is that a fact?
- Under the weather...literally
- The latest tactic in Russian foreign policy
- Living in the United Kingdom is like having an omnipresent babysitter
- Slowly but surely?
- Putin 1, Bush 0
- Prague: Czech it out, Part II
- Less than a month
- Prague: Czech it out
- A campaign we can all agree on
- Lindsay goes to Ireland: The End
- Grad school weekend defined
- Lindsay goes to Ireland: The Bullets and Bombs of Belfast
- Prague
- Good tacos in London
- Lindsay goes to Ireland: County Wicklow, the "garden of Ireland"
- Li