Yes, yes yes! This is my kind of sunroof!

West Village Rooftop by Caliper Studio

Not Easily

When we get beyond beauty and pleasure,

to the other side of the heart (but short

of the spirit), we are confused about what

to do next. It is too easy to say arriving

is enough. To pretend the music

of the mountain needs only to be heard.

That the dance is known by the dancing,

and the lasagne is realized by eating it.

Not in this place on the other side

of desire. We can swim in the Aegean,

but we can't take it home. A man finds

a melon by the road and continues up

the hill thinking it is the warm melon

that will remain after he has forgotten

the ruins and sea of the summer. He tells

himself this even as the idea of the taste

is replacing what the melon tasted like.

- Jack Gilbert

The Tea Maker Had Coffee for 18 Months and Nobody Else Has the Right to Say Whether It Was Good or Bad

Happy 30th year of freedom, John.

OH MY GOD. The National plays March 2011 within Cebupacific/PAL/Tiger Airways/Airphilippines BUDGET FLIGHT Radius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is soooooooooooo dope!

Recently, PDI published an article called "25 Things to do in the Philippines ... before fantasizing about other countries" . I'm done with 15. Okay, 10 technically because I did not pick strawberries in La Trinidad, I did not wakeboard in camsur, I did not go to Pampanga for the Sisig, I snorkeled not dove in Anilao and I was in CDO for work. Meh. The others have been in my bucket list for some time now. I'm planning to tick them all off by 2012. Who's with me?