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“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.” Osamu Dazai

June 21, 2020by librocubicultarist 2 Comments

It’s hard to write anything when the country is on fire. I love those people who say Charles Dickens wrote something long and boring during the Spanish flu or whatever […]

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Food, Television Shows

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

April 9, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

I am in Spain with one of my cousins and two of my aunts and we are having a good time. Madrid is absolutely gorgeous, I can barely stand it. […]

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Family, Food, Travel

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin

January 5, 2013by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

The Spain trip is booked! Woo Hoo! On top of that – good news that I’m going to England directly from there; bad news, I’m going to England for work […]

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Food, Friends, Movies

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” Thomas Edison

December 26, 2012by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

I feel like I’ve gained 10 pounds. Why is there so much food here? And good stuff too, things I don’t buy. Also, I actually baked the other day – […]

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Family, Food

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust

November 5, 2012by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Ed note: This post was going to be about Proust, and wound up being about eggplant, and for that I am very, truly sorry. Fall in California can be infuriating.  […]

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Books, Food

“Life is more fun if you play games.” Roald Dahl

November 4, 2012by librocubicultarist 1 Comment

I spent the weekend with my friends Bibi and Edd in LA.  Bibi and I have been friends for a long time, more than fifteen years.  We met working at […]

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Food, Friends, Travel

”Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns” George Eliot

September 5, 2012by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Yes, in fact, I am ready for some football.  Thanks for asking. I love fall, it’s my favorite season (even in California we call it a season, because it goes […]

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Food, Friends

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

August 30, 2012by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

I am a wanderer.  I love to travel to a place I’ve never been, I love to explore and get lost and find my way again.  The only thing I […]

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Food, Travel

“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” John Keats

August 19, 2012by librocubicultarist Leave a comment

Some days I jump out of bed.  Literally.  It is quite annoying to most people I know. Today isn’t one of those days.  Today is more of a wake up […]

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Food, Random

Starbucks, that’s enough.

August 15, 2012by librocubicultarist 1 Comment

This is the view from my office.  Do you see what is out there, approximately 30 yards (totally made that up, I have no ability to deduce spatial relations, it […]

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