Pictures from my phone Pictures From My Phone & Weekly Distractions The end of another week is upon us. Today I bring you 5 new pictures from my phone and a few other links to distract you from more important things.
Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers IV I hope it's not too soon, but today I bring you Yahoo! Answers IV. I want to scoop all of these people up and take them home with
Ridiculous The Joys of Cool Air An update on the Stormtrooper/Vehicle of Despair air-flow problems: Only moments before I planned to get the president of every country in the world on a conference call all at once to demand that they each declare an international state of emergency, marshal
Ridiculous Seat Belts & Rotting Bodies Alii, dear strangers. First, an update on the Stormtrooper/Vehicle of Despair. That thing that I mentioned might happen--the thing that would undoubtedly lead to my death--well it happened. The
Emails Hair Salon Emails One stranger, Emma, referred me to a website of a pretentious hair salon in a big city. The website had a contact email for questions and explained that it would
Ridiculous Ice Cream Excessive Portion-aholic No political rants here today, though I'm definitely feeling a bit reflective this week for all kinds of reasons. Maybe I'll share some thoughts later after I've worked them out. For now, I want to tell you about
The Siblings The Stormtrooper Before I got to Palau I bought a pretty inexpensive yet supposedly durable vehicle from a person who was leaving the island. It seemed risky at the time to make
Emails Massage Emails A few months ago a stranger, Jared, sent me an ad posted online by a guy we'll call "Paul" looking for an "intimate" massage
Church Tennis First item of business, welcome new strangers! Over the past few weeks we've seen an influx of new traffic to Stranger, which I understand is primarily due to
Yahoo Answers Yahoo! Answers III I bring you now the third edition of Messing with People in Yahoo! Answers. What good is a Halloween week if nobody has asked the Internet about what to do
Ridiculous The Eli McCann School of Diving Alii, strangers. To kick off your weekend in the states, I bring you three short videos from Palau. My friends and I down here run off to a great beach near my apartment most days right after work to snorkel, read, watch the sunset,
Ridiculous Scuba Alii from the south Pacific. "Alii" is a greeting in Palaun. I used that word so you would think I'm super cultured and practically a native
Emails Book Club Emails One stranger, Margret M., sent me an email a few months ago about a book club with very strict bylaws and suggested that I email the group. After doing a
Ukraine Pictures from My Phone: European Edition A little late coming, but here at last, I give you Pictures from My Phone: The European Edition. I know, I know. I'm in Palau now. I should
Palau Piranhas. Everywhere. Mere moments after I informed you of my China Air lost bag naked wanderer catastrophe of last week, I received a phone call informing me that my bag was found
Palau Greetings from Palau Hey strangers. The haggard and terrified Eli of one week ago reports to you now from the edge of the world, buried deep in the Pacific, one small breeze away from devastating hurricane. We arrived on Tuesday night in Palau, exactly 745 hours after
Nostalgia All At Once I'm sitting in an airport in Taipei now with Daniel. This is our second layover of two. Our first was in San Francisco where my dear friend Elsa picked us up and drove us across the Golden Gate bridge for some dinner
Ridiculous Cats Let's talk about it. I think it's time. Cats. I bet if you did one of those analysis things to find out the most frequent topics
The Siblings Plane Crash I wrote this on the last few pages of a book I was reading while on the plane from Istanbul to New York yesterday. Spoiler alert: I made it home without dying. So we hopped onto a plane to head home and that'
Ridiculous Turkish Hamam I am soakıng wet from a raın storm and trying to write an update for you to the sounds of a very loud call to prayer outside, the loud ramblings of a smoking computer attendant, and a totally strange keyboard with letters in other
Ridiculous Food Massacre in Krakow Dear Strangers, There's a pigeon feather on my foot right now. I just noticed it. It's from the squawking pigeon we just saw get squashed by a car driving past us. That squashed pigeon is sort of like a metaphor
Ridiculous Not Sleeping in Ukraine Hi Strangers, It's been an exhausting few days in the land of bobushkas. I have not slept in days. I currently look like an old man. But I'm pretty happy. I tried to get a head start on what I
Ukraine Wrapping Up SLC Well strangers, I'm out of my apartment for good. Sorry if you were trying to stalk me and you just found out where I was living. I promise to give you enough information in future blog posts to piece together my whereabouts
Ridiculous Imagine No Possessions My apartment looks like a war zone. It's so horrific. Like, if they brought a camera in and filmed it, the news would have to edit the footage before airing it on television. It has been said that every person who has
Pictures from my phone More Pictures from My Phone This weekend I bring you more pictures from my phone. It's fun for me to glance through these and look at the captured bits of life I run
