Archive for March, 2002
Monday, March 25th, 2002
Israel: did it work for you?
When I was flying back out of Tel Aviv, I again got interrogated and tapped for special inspection in the back room. While the El Al gnomes (much more friendly and, truth, attractive gnomes than the previous) were tearing apart my bag and the bag I was carrying back for Nicole, one of the senior [...]
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Sunday, March 24th, 2002
Israel: the god of abraham
I arrived at the Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion airport around 2:30 on the 21st and argued with El Al until they gave me a ticket. (”There are no flights. Perhaps later.” “There are two flights to New York and one to Chicago in the next twelve hours. Please look again.”) At each stop, I had to [...]
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2002
proud to be an american
Last Thursday I walked through the Financial district around two in the afternoon. Suits wrapped around helpless bodies caromed through the streets all around me, and I felt like a midwestern boy on a nude beach for the first time. The guy playing the piano was the only element of the scene that somehow seemed [...]
