11.30.2009 8:14 am / Matthew Gipp
The Cherry Blossom Front
From Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, a rumination on snowless winters in Tokyo.
tag: travel
11.24.2009 11:35 pm / Matthew Gipp
Gadhimai
NEPAL – A provincial Hindu festival during which some 250,000 animals are ritualistically slaughtered for Gadhimai, a goddess of power, began today in earnest.
11.18.2009 10:36 pm / Matthew Gipp
Haiti: Republic of Zombies
Zombies, he tells us, are real, not some figment of the collective Haitian imagination but men and women who have died (or rather who appear to have died), been buried, then brought back to life to pass the rest of their days as imbecile slaves.
We’re talking real imaginary zombies—the voodoo kind, not the braiiiins kind. Mischa Berlinski tells the tale in the September issue of Men’s Journal.
11.10.2009 10:19 pm / Matthew Gipp
Dispatches from India
One of my favorite things on McSweeney’s: David Orr, laid off during our Great Recession, bought a one-way ticket to India and began wandering. (And writing!)
11.04.2009 11:37 pm / Matthew Gipp
The Perfect Place to Die
Via Coudal. Photographer Toby de Silva‘s pictures of Aokigahara, an eerie-looking forest at the base of Mount Fuji that also happens to be one of the world’s hottest destinations for suicides.
9.18.2009 10:33 pm / Matthew Gipp
Where the Magic Comes From
Intrepid young graphic designer buys an All-You-Can-Jet pass from JetBlue and sets out to visit and see – from tarmacs and terminals – 43 cities in 30 days.
He made a site, The 30-Day Flight and intends to chronicle his journey.
Yesterday – Day 10 – the guy sitting next to him was the guy who designed the ambient music system at Walt Disney World.
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