01 August 2007

The Beginning: Rainbow Sherbet Swirl

So I'm a few months behind; I promised to post this last fall so y'all could keep track of me, if so inclined, whilst I traipsed about South America. About three weeks into the trip, and after I composed a couple of insightful, pithy, and profound essays but before I posted them, my laptop was liberated and walked into the aether in the arms of another man. Thus ended the blogging plans...until now.

Unfortunately, when li'l laptop wandered off, she took more than my heart and some incoherent ramblings with her - she also took hundreds of photos which I had downloaded but not backed up. So, things you won't find here:
  1. Photos of Iguazu National Park (Cataratas del Parque Nacional IguazĂș), home of some of the most spectacular waterfalls, jungles, and wildife, in the Americas;
  2. Photos of my lovely friend Yoko, looking quite sophisticated in a breezy white ensemble as she lounges by the sparkling swimming pool of an exquisite beach mansion on the gold coast of Uruguay;
  3. The photos, story, or setup of the scene as Yoko's brother-in-law Justin proclaims, "I'm no fluffer, I'm just there for the money shot;"
  4. Hundreds of photos of street art from Montevideo, Uruguay's capital and home of some of the most prolific and profound street art anywhere;
  5. Photos of framed pics of Adolph Hitler on a street vendor's table two blocks from the Jewish Center headquarters of Montevideo, or concomitant musings on the nature of a society that can tolerate such disparate poles in such proximity;
  6. Photos of the skyscrapers of Buenos Aires peaking above the horizon across the massive, muddy, red Rio de la Plata from the 400-year-old Uruguayan colonial town of Colonia del Sacramento;
  7. Audio recordings of birds from the jungles of Argentina or the coast of Uruguay; and,
  8. Many other things that have slipped my mind at this distant date.
Many apologies for that. However...the good news, I guess, is that I do have years of other photos and tales to share. I'll be posting those regularly, though it will likely take me years to get everything out there, since I'm on the road again for the next 6 months or so and will be popping in submissions about the here and now to go along with the there and then. So...I'll still be annoying you with mails about recent updates! Sweet!


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow....bummer about the laptop. You'll have to go back and relive the experiences so you can rephoto them, and fer god's sake back them up!

Anonymous said...

Sir, your loss is a tragedy but could have been averted if you had been using real film instead of the delicate and practically non-existent digital photo data. Come to think of it if you stayed here and submitted to the 40 hour work week instead of prancing about in some Godless backwater you would not have gotten your portable stolen.