Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Really? Rice?
This is a billboard in Durres. It reads “When elegant dreams become realities!”It’s an advertisement for rice.
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008
S’kemi ujë
August in Albania means the beach, weddings, gjiros, okra and best of all, energy and water shortages. In Durres, we’ve had no water for about 19 hours a day, from 5pm to 6am, then on and off for the rest of the day. 20 minutes here, 2 hours there — there’s nothing that resembles a [...]
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp’d on [...]
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
incongruity
Today’s top two Albania News RSS feeds are “Albania Comes Alive” followed by “Albania Faces Epidemic of Suicides.”
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Gërmim in Durazzo
Here’s a video I made of the excavation. It’s also my first YouTube post.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Gardy-loo!
Welcome to another installment of “OSHA? We Don’t Need No Stinking OSHA!” This week’s episode: “Garbage Disposal at the Construction Site.”
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Il Mio Muro
I cleaned a 13th-century wall at the excavation today.
