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28 Things That Are Funny

  By Robert Reid | December 3, 2009 - 7:00 am |
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1. Sandwiches2. Pants3. Spirals4. Large beaked animals5. Calgary6. Falling down7. Gerbil attacks8. Fig bars9. Faxing10. Reporters11. The ‘Caveman’ commercials12. Cribbage13. Words that end with -nsk14. State quarters15. Tonsils16. ‘Come again?’17. That Nepal sets its time 0:45 past the hour18. Head bands19. Business meetings20. The Bolivian navy (flag above)21. The drum solo at the 1:10 mark of this video by the ’80s Hungarian band … Read on →

After the End of Travel

  By Robert Reid | July 1, 2009 - 7:52 am |
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Will we reach all the places, hear all the folk songs, buy cynical copies of all the traditional outfits, claim all the beaches? Maybe so. Frank Bures wrote for World Hum recently about what happens if/when this happens. Would travel die? No, he suggests, “the non-places of today are the places of tomorrow.” In other words, as things change, new destinations form. I … Read on →