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Archive for April, 2011

Bridgetown is Beautiful

Posted in Photos, tagged on April 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Sunset at the port in Bridgetown, Barbados. 'Nuff said.

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South and East

Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged , , , , on April 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I’m flying back to Ontario tomorrow to visit friends and family, and then headed on to Barbados late next week. The Barbados visit will be bittersweet: It’s my last trip before my dad wraps up his work there and moves home to Canada, and while I’m sure I’ll get back to the island again even without a parental stronghold to stay in, it won’t be quite the same.

I’ll hope to get in a surf lesson or two while I’m there. And speaking of surfing (hey, segue!) here’s an interview I did for Matador Sports with big-name surf filmmaker Taylor Steele.

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Two Takes on “The Pale King” by David Foster Wallace

Posted in Tangents, tagged , , on April 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

David Foster Wallace’s “posthumous unfinished novel,” The Pale King, has arrived — let the commentating begin.

Over at Slate, Tom Scocca tears down Michiko Kakutani’s review of the new book, and of the whole notion, more generally, that a deceased author should be evaluated based on work that he never completed.

Scocca, in blistering form:

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