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Posted by banane on September 28th, 2009 — in Uncategorized

I’m the Anachronism, I’m the Problem

Posted by banane on September 8th, 2009 — in nostalgia, travel

I was shocked, when I was 22 and flew to Paris, that it wasn’t like I’d read in the expat novels of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Instead, it was kinda like home. Grunge was big there, like it was in Seattle. Hip hop was emerging there, just like it was in San Jose. Everyone spoke English, [...]