Neptune Landing

When you think of New York, what comes to mind? Perhaps the ubiquitous logo adorning the world's t-shirts:  The graphic designer,  Milton Glaser , came up with the logo idea while riding in the back of a taxi in 1976. How about Texas? Do you know they had a PR and PSA coup with their intimidating warning: "Don't Mess with Texas." That slogan, created by the Texas Department of Transportation, not only gave Texas a bit of chutzpah on the national stage but it urged the state's litterbugs to rethink their habits. Studies found that  the campaign helped reduce litter by 72%  on Texas highways over a three-year-period. The warning soon took on a life of its own; it's basically become the state's unofficial motto. It soon became a rallying cry for the Texan people's grit and bravado. "Don't Mess with Texas T-Shirt"   by  J. Stephen Conn  is licensed under  CC BY-NC 2.0  While there is usually some type of strategic intent behind bra...

I've always been drawn to the northwestern islands off the coast of Europe. In fact, I'm sure I've had a past life here; perhaps as a newsboy in Victorian England. One of the purposes of shamanism is not only to connect with your life totems and power animals but also to commune with your ancestors and guardian angels. And there are some places in the "Middle World" (or what we call Non-Ordinary Reality) that are more conducive with one's individual psychography, past, or spiritual composition. English people, out of all the island peoples, would be the first to call me mad or batty were I to broach this subject. The English are known to be champions of logic and linear thinking, a no-nonsense people. In the other member countries of the United Kingdom, there seems to be more magic. It could be that the others are nowhere near as densely populated. There is something remarkably twee about Ireland, Wales, and Scotland and their attendant native peoples, ...

Gosh, where do we start with this one?                                                                                                                                      Photograph: Alamy                  Our class had taken a field trip to the British Library Digital Labs Symposium which ended up being like an awards show for the most cutting-edge projects associated with local research groups. There was free food, an explicit call to "network" (a term that gives me the willies when spoken aloud), and a number of creative projects. The keynote speaker who kicked things off at the ripe hour of 10 a...

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After seven and a half years of meeting San Francisco on its own terms, that old Aries restlessness, my oldest companion, has come back. Which is strange because the young and the restless move TOWARDS San Francisco but the fact is I'm not that young anymore. This news of my move may come as a shock to those who know me, for running my own pet care business has been the best gig I've ever had. San Francisco, likewise, has been the best fit on so many levels: physical, emotional, spiritual, and culinary. The thing is though I suffer from what the Germans call fernweh , the longing for unknown lands. So just last Saturday, with my married sweetheart in tow, I moved to London. I'm now in that grey space, that concrete twilight between two iconic cities. San Francisco: light, airy, casual and hedonic and London: ancient, driven, established, and scheming. A friend of mine once told me that whenever you move somewhere new, you have to believe that you...