| Join | |
Tue, February 9, 2010
Slow Travel, Adam Baer

Travel Fiction from Thomas Beller: The Baggage Carousel

Adam Baer
MORE FROM Adam Baer

Slow Travel Around the Web

 

Tune In, Tokyo

Posted 2 months ago

I was stooped over the bar in a one-lightbulb Tokyo dive, two fingers into a three-finger pour of Jack Daniels, when I saw Sho being ushered toward the door. It was a subtle move–a bit surprising, but hardly cause for alarm. Not at first anyway. As the black-teethed, ponytailed, 56-year-old…

KEEP READING »

Dark Man at the Airport

Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago

It was my great misfortune to be traveling from New York City to Paris just two months after 9/11.

For while my passport is American and clearly states that I was born in New York, there is no getting around the fact that the name printed beside the photo of a dark-haired, dark-eyed, and…

KEEP READING »

Sandland Seduction: The New Palm Springs Weekend, Two Ways

Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago

In 1963, the Beach Party film dried up. Well, not literally. But for all of its faults, Palm Springs Weekend, a dopey ensemble flick about a bunch of L.A. rich kids indulging their “primitive, instinctual urges” to spend Easter Break in the SoCal desert, was a paean to the sandland escape…

KEEP READING »
« Adam Baer : Older Posts
 
 
 
  2. How to Bounce Back From a Job Loss
  3. Pinworms - You Have To Admire Them
  4. How Drug Companies Use Marketing to Mislead Physicians and Consumers
  5. Rush Limbaugh's Shockingly Stupid Argument About God and Climate Change
  6. Tim Tebow, Violence Against Women, and How Politics Can Ruin Sports
  7. Don't Mess With a Bunch of Pissed-Off Medievalists
  8. Groundhog Day: Sex and the Shadow
  9. Chris Paul as Gravity
  10. Why are CNN and HuffPo Eating Up Vice Magazine's Pathetic Reporting on Liberia?
  11. What's Being Done for Ethiopian - and Other - Domestic Workers in Lebanon