I won’t be posting anything here until Wednesday of next week.
See you then, my friends.
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Blogging will be light until after the new year. My family’s in town from the US. We’re having lots of fun.
Happy holidays, all. See you in 2K7.
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I won’t be posting anything here for about a week and a half. I’ll be back and blogging on December 12. See you then.
In the meantime, feel free to peruse the Best of Newley.com or visit some of the fine sites linked to on the lower left side of this page.
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Best of Newley.com
For your reading pleasure — and really, everything I do is, ultimately, for your reading pleasure — I’ve compiled a list of some of my best posts. I went back through my archives, which stretch back to January of 2002, and selected only the most ridiculously sublime of my musings.
Enjoy them again for the fist time.
— Jalapeno Hands: a Cautionary Culinary Tale (July 3, 2004 — Thanks to Chris D. for the tale.)
— US Soccer: Postmortem Analysis (June 29, 2006)
— Spotted in Bangkok: Collectible Lighters Featuring World Ethnicities (April 27, 2006)
— Health Insurance and Moral-Hazard (August 22, 2005)
— Notes from Indonesia (April 20, 2006)
— Korean French Fry-Encrusted Hot Dogs (February 18, 2006)
— Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 (December 20, 2005)
— Newley.com: Best in Comments (January 21, 2006)
— My Pics of a DC Sunset (August 22, 2005)
— Chorks: Approved for Use in Outer Space (September 16, 2005)
— Hurricanes, Global Warming, and Politically-Inspired Fear-Mongering (Related: Climate Change and Hurricane Katrina) (September – December, 2005)
— Ecuadorian Corpus Christi Celebrations: Bring on the Fireworks (June 24, 2003)
— Old Photos I Found at my Grandmother’s House and Scanned in (January 4, 2006)
— New York Fuggin’ City (June 27, 2005)
— Ecuadorian Soup in the New Yorker (September 6, 2005)
— Miles the Spider (August 10, 2005)
— Video of Thai Ladies Laughing at Me (August 2, 2006 — Thanks to A for the clip.)
— Blogging from 30,000 Feet (June 8, 2006)
I won’t be posting anything until Wednesday of next week. When I do resume my ramblings herein, however, I’ll have lots of photos to share. Let’s just say that. Bye for now, mis amigos.
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Welcome BoingBoing Readers
Hello, BoingBoing readers. I’ll be traveling in Asia through June, so please consider subscribing to my RSS feed or adding a bookmark (del.icio.us or otherwise) to this site.
Okay. Back to the originally-scheduled programming…
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I Leave for Korea on Monday
Remember when I said that great things await in 2006? Well, try this one on for size:
In less than 48 hours I leave for Korea.
Seoul, to be exact. Gonna visit my brother there for a while, then take an extended Asian sojourn. Taiwan? You better believe it. Southeast Asia? Perhaps. China? Mongolia? Bangladesh? I wouldn’t rule anything out.
For now, all I can say with any degree of certainty is that I arrive in Seoul at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday evening and I come back to the US on June 8th.
I’ll have Web access throughout, as I’ll be working — and, of course, I’ll be updating newley.com with both text and photos. I’m writing this from Beaufort, South Carolina, where I’m visiting my mom and step-dad and brother Colin. Drove down here from DC yesterday. I leave on Monday morning from Savannah; I go through Atlanta and San Francisco on my way to the far east. (Sorry not to have announced this a little earlier, but, well, you know how I roll.)
Stay tuned, friends. I’m gonna have some good stories to tell.
I’m happy to see that some of my posts have elicited comments from a wide range of passionate folks.
First, I’ve been remiss in pointing out that my criticism of Friends of the Earth’s over-simplified and misleading Metro posters linking global warming to killer hurricanes prompted a response from a representative of FOE. I replied to his comment but have yet to receive a follow-up.
Second, a pair of commetns from both the left and the right. One comes from someone named “VoRtoN.” He takes issue with my argument that Howard Dean is a bombastic moron for saying we can’t win the war in Iraq. I replied, in my follow up comment, that “winning,” at this point, must mean securing the country and bringing our troops home. No response from VoRtoN yet.
The other comment comes fom one Jim Mulligan, who questions my love of country for merely pointing out that newly-elected Bolivian president Evo Morales used the expression “Death to Yankees” as part of his campaign slogan.
“Don’t you wish,” Jim writes. “I hope you don’t call yourself an ‘American.'”
But, of course, I didn’t say “Death to Yankees.” Evo did.
Though, in truth, my favorite part of Jim’s comment is the way in which he concludes, by assessing Evo’s rise, that “You media elites and foolish liberals proclaim this as progress for the people.”
Yep, that’s me. A media elite and a foolish liberal. (Okay, foolish liberal maybe, but media elite?)
Elsewhere, a post from back in July about swimwear that “highlights the face, rather than the body” continues to draw feedback from readers (mostly, I imagine, because the item ranks sixth in a Google search for “modest swimwear.”) My favorite of the bunch is the latest, from a reader named PJ, who writes:
We are to treat our bodies as a temple, respect them and take care of them, and save the viewing of our “temple” for our spouses only when we are joined in matrimony. Question to ponder: If the Lord were to return here, right now, how many would feel right standing before Him practically naked?
Whoa. Me standing before God in nothing but my zebra-striped Speedo? Scary. Very, very scary.
More links to my Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 survey:
— Fimoculous.com’s massive 2005 compendium of year-end lists
— The Olive Reader (Harper Perennial’s blog)
— Troy Worman’s Orbit Now! Personal Development blog
— And don’t miss the ever-expanding comments to the post, which have proven to be quite amusing and informative, with “Joe Public” even making an appearance…
My Bloggers’ Favorite Books of 2005 Round-up continues to attract mad eyeballs due to some additional links from various fine folks:
— Jason Kottke at Kottke.org
— Gadling
And don’t miss the comments to the survey, in which Richard Lewis (blogging from Bali), Seeking Irony, Joe at Book Covers from the NY Times Book Review blog, and John Williams at A Special Way of Being Afraid weigh in.
UPDATE: Gothamist has also provided a link.