Monkey Wrestling

I lived with this dog in Africa for a month. His name was Juju and here he is wrestling a monkey.

I finished Eating Animals. You should get a copy because the author Mr. Foer not only makes a great case for being a vegetarian, but he also shows how disgusting factory farming is in the United States and how deplorable the system is. The whole disgusting machine of our food industry is irresponsible and unsustainable.

Now I am reading The Sky and the Forest by C.S. Forester about a man named "Loa" who is a God to his people and brother to the sun. You should check it out. I bought my copy at a small book shop in Old Saybrook, CT.

He is joining me this weekend and we are taking a sojourn up to Maine to explore the state. I'll tell you all about it when I get back.

what's happening

Satan Sandwich? Satan fries? Nancy Pelosi is getting me hungry.

I'm reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. You should give it a look through if you are thinking about becoming a vegetarian and also if you want to know where the meat you eat comes from.

I just applied at Panera Bread and they had an interesting questionnaire at the end. One of those strongly agree/strongly disagree. I didn't really enjoy doing it. What does asking me if I am adventurous have to do with making people bread and soup?

Oh yeah and Maxtall! I was at the gym and they had a wonderful commercial on about gel inserts that you can place inside of your shoes to make you a few inches taller. Of course then you get the sexy girl at the park, close the business deal, and be able to look eye to eye with your boss. I am thinking about getting some for my friend Jason to make him six nine.

Back Home

So I am back home in Berlin. I spent three months in Western Africa and had a wonderful time traveling with some great people. Some of the people that I met where so gracious and kind that it was hard to leave them. It is a different way of life there, and many people here take a large amount of things for granted.

I hope you are all well. I am just finishing up an autobiography by Johnny Cash entitled "Man in Black." It is very preachy and I didn't know that Cash was such a religious man.

While I was gone I didn't read as much as I should have, but I made an effort. Sometimes when you think about how much time you have to kill on a bus you tell yourself you are going to read and write, but many things creep up on you and it gets difficult to focus. Fatigue and the uncertainty of your destination can cause extreme lethargy.

I hope all of you can get a chance to travel soon, and you should read as much as you can while you do. Now that I am home I am going to try to save up for my next trip, which I don't know the destination yet, and I am going to try to go back to school.

See you when I see you.
Read a book er 2.

mandingo

I just finished the book "Mandingo." It is about the world of slavery in the U.S. before the civil war. It was eye opening and grossed me out a few times.

It is drizzling today in Berlin, Connecticut.

I'm listening to Theophilus London. He is a rapper/artist that seems to be on the rise and is quite talented.

There is wanderlust in the air, and I know I will be traveling again soon.

Miss you all.

Read a book.

Mandingo

I am reading a book called Mandingo. It is about a slave breeding plantation that takes place before the civil war. Whenever I read older books my hands accidentally destroy them. I feel like I am killing it as I am reading it. I shift to much when I read I think.

My mother told me that when she read this book many people wanted it banned because of the explicit descriptions of sex and violence.

I smell like coffee.

So should you.

the rain

I really enjoy watching the rain from my window next to my computer. I don't know why people get depressed from the rain. I rather enjoy watching it.

I was watching Lost in Translation the other day and thinking about all the little undertones that are present in it. Like Bill Murray's character hating saddened by watching himself on Japanese television. Also watching the scene where they go to a karaoke made me think about the one time I went to one of those little rooms and you have private karaoke with your friends.

I enjoy public karaoke. Where the rest of the bar either loves you or hates you.

I want to hit the road again

Sitting around this suburb is driving me crazy. I am reading the Plague by Albert Camus. You should read it as well.