In which I write about “Hell On Wheels” for the New York Times

October 23, 2011

  Hell on Wheels, New York Times, Oct. 23, 2011

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In which I write about “Once Upon A Time” for TV Guide

October 13, 2011

My TV Guide Article about “Once Upon A Time” (opens as PDF file)

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Vancouver Sunsets

September 18, 2011

So where were we? Oh yeah, hanging with Kenney Dale Johnson in Seattle. I’ve done a fair amount of lollygagging on this leg of the trip, more than I expected. The plan, more or less, had been to go up the Pacific Coast, cross into Canada, drive the Alaska Highway through British Columbia and The [...]

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A Year On The Road

September 4, 2011

It’s been a year since I took off in the Traipsemobile, left Dallas and headed east. I feel like I ought to mark the occasion, if only to thank the people who have helped me so much along the way. But I don’t really have much to say that isn’t already somewhere else on this [...]

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The Mayor of Everywhere

September 1, 2011

So, where were we? Oh yeah, outside of Portland, getting towed. It threw me, the bad Oregon mojo. Not just getting towed for the first time, but the fact that people there seemed to regularly recognize the Traipsemobile for exactly what it is. They were still complimentary, (uncharacteristically so for Oregonians) but they didn’t mistake [...]

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The Rainy Part of Hell

August 23, 2011

So where were we? Oh yeah, the Regal Lodge in Oxnard. There were a few more strange days in northern California after that. In Santa Cruz, I went to see Gillian Welch play at a gig at the Cocoanut Grove ballroom right by the boardwalk on Monterey Bay. You could feel vibrations from the roller [...]

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The Regal Lodge

August 1, 2011

So where were we? Oh yeah, at the Grand Canyon, watching tourists pretend to fall in. I drove to Los Angeles from there, to attend the “Bernie” premiere and, theoretically, get some writing done. Which I did, kind of, finishing the “Breaking Bad” piece in time for it to actually get in the paper when [...]

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Grand Canyon

July 23, 2011

So, where were we? Oh, yeah, on the Blues Train in Durango. I had actual work to do after that, a couple of days in Albuquerque, visiting the set of “Breaking Bad” for a New York Times piece  and, in the process, ingesting more smoke than a Jamaican firefighter. It was from those massive wildfires [...]

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In Which I write about “Breaking Bad” for The New York Times

July 16, 2011

“Breaking Bad” Returns and Walter White’s Descent Continues

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Night Train to Durango

July 15, 2011

So, where were we? Oh yeah, at the “Bernie” world premiere in downtown Los Angeles. Because people wanted to hear about that in a timely manner (as opposed to my usual timetable, “Whenever the fuck I get around to it.”) I posted the “Bernie” dispatch out of sequence, instead of pseudo-chronicling a month’s worth of [...]

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