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Daniel Adler Comes to Terms With the End of His Trip (And His Whispering...
I’m coming to terms with the end of my trip. I met a young man named Aaron last night at a Couchsurfing event a six-foot two German girl invited me to. It was the kind of thing I used to waffle over...
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Daniel Adler Surveys Singapore
Singapore is a lot how I expected it to be. Big buildings, clean, new, safe, quiet, all very nice. Some say that Singapore doesn’t have any character, but I think its niceness and lack of grit is its...
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Daniel Adler Stranded In Malaysia
I slept off a hangover most of the morning. We went to a party last night on the other side of the country. It was a bunch of rich Indians celebrating a birthday with boxes of Grey Goose in a rented...
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The Good Gas Attendant
I went with one of the gas attendants on his bike into the jungle. I was slightly afraid– anything could happen and I was again being forced to blindly trust someone. We drove along the dirt path past...
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Daniel Adler and the Malaysian Police
When you go to a police station in a foreign country chances are no good will come of it. Your case will get bungled in foreign bureaucracy, or they assume you’ll leave the country in a few days or by...
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An Update
For the past three months I have been writing in notebooks. I finished one this morning and I need to buy a new one, a black composition notebook with pages thick enough to use Precise pens on both...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012....
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Moveable Cities
There are different ways to start a sentence. Just as there are different ways to live a life. For some time it was about the spires and minarets of temples on the sea, the ceramic tile of an ancient...
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Why I Like to Suffer
I like to suffer. It is an antidote to illusion. Even when I am worrying, to remind myself that I am suffering and that eventually I will feel better, helps me deal. Am I crazy? Let us recall the...
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A Day in Greenpoint, and Shoplifting From American Apparel: A Review
I am in Greenpoint, off Greenpoint Avenue, waiting to meet my girlfriend at Paulie Gee’s for dinner. Moonchild is meeting us too, and then we’ll go to that bar that has two for one drinks on Tuesdays,...
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The Douchiest Borough in NYC
Last time I was in a beer garden in Queens, it was the Czech one, which used to be the only biergarten in NYC. Not only do I now know that there is more than one, I know the location of Studio...
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Why Bushwick is Beating Williamsburg
When was the last time you went to Williamsburg and had the time of your life? Better yet, when was your last adventure in Williamsburg? For me it was a while ago. Part of that has to do with the...
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How I Learned to Like Bob Dylan
I never liked Bob Dylan. In ninth grade my Global Studies teacher played “Like a Rolling Stone” for the class, and I appreciated how it had influenced a generation, but damn, how did a guy with a...
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The Best Deceptions
The numbers on the car clock glowed orange. Forty-two minutes before take-off. The black leather was sticky because no breeze blew through the window at our ten mile per hour crawl. We...
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Great Rivers of the World
The Amazon, a muddy, light river. The great rivers of the world are all very unique and can be seen in your backyard, if you look closely enough. First let’s talk about the Amazon, since it is the...
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The 100 Best Books of the Last 100 Years (1913-2013)
It’s hard to take a literarian seriously if they haven’t read “Ulysses.” In the first 25 years of my life I have taken into account, above all, critical lists. The “canon” as it is known, is what is...
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The 10 Greatest Pitfalls of Copywriting
Copywriting sounds like a lot of fun for a big paycheck, but in reality it’s got a dark side too, like most things that glitter gold. Here are the ten worst things about copywriting today: 1. No One...
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Out of the Closet: A Critical Study of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet”
I used to laugh at my friends whenever they mentioned R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet.” Until last Friday. I wrote a restaurant review for the Bushwick Daily at 3rd Ward’s new restaurant,...
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How to Own a White Ball Python
Let me just say, first off, that I’ve never actually owned a white ball python. I have seen, and even handled, white ball pythons, but know very little about how to own them. This essay, then, is an...
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How to Patronize a Cafe
This is how to be successful in a cafe setting. First and foremost, be friendly with your baristas. If possible, know the manager. Learn their names, talk about things that interest them, and always...
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