Category: travel
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Lost Angels
I’m driving to Los Angeles today to meet up with my colleagues on the Emerging Leader Council of Americans for the Arts for our annual Winter Meeting and planning session. We’ll spend two days working out how we want to spend our year together, what we can do for Emerging Leader networks nationally, and what…
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Notes toward an Autobiography
I have developed a new obsessive-compulsive behavior. Before I can read a magazine, I go through and remove all the blow-in subscription cards. After that, I go from cover to cover and tear out any advertising (or advertorial) printed on stock heavier than the rest of the magazine, typically cologne/perfume samples and tobacco ads (I’m…
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Report: Atlanta Queer Literary Festival
Over the weekend I made a jaunt down to Atlanta for the AQLF. It was super fun! I got in Friday night and had a nice dinner with friends, then went back to my hotel and hit the hay. Saturday I had breakfast with Jim Elledge, which is one of the nicest ways to start…
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Alotta Vagaga
On Monday Beau and I went to the Lady Gaga show in Richmond. It was awesome. I know that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who love Gaga, and those who think she’s gaga. I’m clearly in the first camp, but don’t disparage those who won’t join me (so do me…
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Storm King
Although it sounds like some kind of supervillain or maybe a kind of hurricane-recovery clean-up service, Storm King is actually a very high profile outdoor sculpture museum featuring some significant works from the 40s-90s. Beau and I dropped in during our recent trip to NY, and we had the good fortune to visit with his…
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Happy Trails
Not that kind. The other kind. Arden and I, after much wrangling with the airlines, are planning to fly out this afternoon for AZ’s not-much-warmer weather, family, and much relaxation. I’ll be checking in, mostly as I succumb to the utter boredom that is having no work to do, including my annual end of the…
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