Author: Jonathan Kieran
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Let the Monuments Draw You In … and the Food Keep You Dazzled: Conde Nast “Eats Across Egypt”
Conde Nast is still worth the price of publication, folks. Yes, even in this market that finds print magazines struggling to stay alive and forced to raise their prices to sometimes eye-bleeding levels, they deliver superior content. Beautiful monthlies like…
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Make that Bad-Ass Manicure Go Viral, Lady
I’m more mesmerized by her bedazzled fingernail than I am by the fossilized shark’s tooth. People really pay for that kind of detail-work, much less “sit through it” while it’s being done? As a pleasurable activity? By the time a…
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One (Even a Shark) Must First “Go Way” in Order to “Come Back”
A number of news outlets (mostly crap British tabloids) have been touting the “new sensation” stirred in the past couple of weeks by footage of the 17–20-ish ft. long shark known as “Deep Blue.” The admittedly gargantuan beastie was filmed…
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Did This MeMaw Have a Death Wish?
Tragic! One attains the ripe—and evidently still quite mobile—age of 85, enjoying a retirement existence in sunny Florida, able to relish the peacefulness of a stroll with your little dog … near a murky pond … and then … MEMAW…
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One Cannot Say Enough Wretched Things About Airports
I feel the need to underscore this point, particularly now, because Vortices of Doom begin at airports, I believe, and Cyclones of Cataclysm end with them. Writing a blog SUCKS when you’ve been doing it for years just to keep…
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Just Bring On the Asteroid, Already
Apparently, several hundred “books” written entirely by some chatty Chinese Artificial Intelligence computer program are currently listed as being for sale to consumers on Amazon. Figures. Forget talent, craft, personal ingenuity, originality, the quest for ideas, and the effort required…
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From Datil Peppers to Boliche, St. Augustine Easily Rivals New Orleans as a Foodie Mecca
And I’m just the dude who can prove it. But I don’t need to. THIS LITTLE ARTICLE does a reasonable job singing the culinary praises of America’s Oldest City. Full disclosure: I lived in St. Augustine for ten years and…
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How About a Hot Dog-Eating Contest in the Sistine Chapel?
Not the best analogy, but popular concerts held in the precincts of Hatshepsut’s funerary temple in Luxor, Egypt, are a troubling idea. Decades of restoration and excavation efforts aside, 3,000 people gathered in the shadow of such a wondrous ancient…
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Great, White, Hale, Hardy, And Sharky
Scientists have long touted the amazing metabolical constitutions of some of the world’s larger shark species and their noteworthy resistance to diseases that afflict all manner of other sea creatures. (Many sharks, for example, seem to possess natural immunities to…
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No Worries, Good Spirits
On hiatus due to a family crisis and will be in fine fettle again soon. ______
Jonathan Kieran 