Friday, May 11, 2007
(5:50 PM) | Brad:
Picture Pages, Picture Pages
Recently I've been going through this blog, the other blogs I write for, and my hard drive in search for solid writing samples to shop around in hopes of landing a writing gig. Most of what I've written in blog-form is pretty crappy, I'll admit. But there are moments of nice writing. One example is the travel diary I posted a few years back, detailing a trip a friend & I took across the country in his pickup truck. It needs some editing, but all in all, I stand by it as an entertaining read. In fact, reading it last night made me sad that I wasn't disciplined enough to do something similar during my trip out here with K. & Ireland. The crucial difference this time, I guess, was that I did most of the driving, and ended up too tired in the evenings even to watch the free soft porn on HBO, let alone plug in the computer and fire up Blogger.Fortunately, K. & I did take plenty of pictures. In lieu of a travel diary, I figured I'd post a few of my favorites. The entire collection is available online, but there's no reason to subject yourself to them unless you're that bored:
(1) Ireland enjoying her Holiday Inn accommodations; (2) Me with Charlie Parker in Kansas City; (3) Approaching Monument Valley; and (4 & 5) An abandoned phone booth and general store in an abandoned tourist-trap ghost town.
