Entries from July 2008

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Welcome Home.

Been home for a few days, getting back in the swing, seeing people, unburying ourselves from the pile of bills and mail and errands and cleaning and unpacking that inevitably accumulates when you’re away from home for two months. Just getting through the last bit of the gnarly part of the jetlag…
…and then BOOM! — [...]

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

My Book is Coming!

Can’t resist plumping this here: Edges of Bounty, My Central Valley book is coming! 

Please go and have a look at the lovely website, designed by Doug Dworkin. Thanks Doug! Thanks Heyday!
 

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

It LIVES!

So, on our last day, the hotel van was scheduled to take us to the airport at 11:20. At 11:03am, Amy and Nutan hugged–the final subtitle was nailed. It looked like this (the hug, not the subtitle):
 

Pure jubilation. Well, filtered through exhaustion. 
 
From that joyous point, we had to get all that stuff home. 

Eleven boxes of [...]

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

A poem for homecoming

Arrival Song (BKK-LAX) from NonFiction Media on Vimeo.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Lost in Translation: Pilot to Co-Pilot

Nutan and I have been working on translation from dawn till dusk for the past 5 days. 
She is coming over in an hour, at 8:00 this morning to do more. We leave at 11:00 am. It is an endless job. The thing is, we are getting so good at it, me and her. When we [...]