Tag: travel
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Fingernails, Luwak and Temples: My Impressions of Bali’s Tourism Industry
Do not stare at the man’s nails. Do not stare at the man’s nails. Do not stare at the man’s nails, I told myself silently over and over again. “I notice you have a scar on your head. Me, too,” I share, not at all silently. Yeah, much, much better, Poe. We are in a…
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Friday Links: Russian Cat Portraits and Dolly Parton
Welp, I made it through another week as a single pet parent and house caretaker. I’ve only peed my pants imagining someone was breaking in to murder me about 25 times this week, including one very terrifying instance where I was woken up at 5 a.m. by the sound of XFE’s shower mirror falling in…
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Links: Naked and Afraid of Sharks Edition
Hope everyone had a great weekend. My personal master-of-the-remote XFE and I certainly did. I suppose you heard that we’re having a heat wave up here in the Northeast, so we did the safe thing, and spent Sunday lying on the couch with a couple of pitchers of watermelon-mint-tequila-aqua-fresca watching the first four episodes of…
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Hello world!
Hi! Look, I’ve birthed a blog. Most people familiar with me know that’s about as close as I ever want to get to birthing anything. Welcome to The Poe Log, a general interest blog about anything that pops into my curly giant head. I’m a writer by day, but writing is a muscle that has…