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Butter Stories: Don't Forget to Look Up, or Why I hate Lonely Planet
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Don't Forget to Look Up, or Why I hate Lonely Planet. Over at Foreign Policy magazine, Michael Moynihan launches a broadside. Against popular travel guides, Lonely Planet. For excusing brutal dictators and whitewashing authoritarian regimes:. But what really gets me about LP is the way that it's positioned itself as the guidebook for "Travelers," as opposed to "tourists," a distinction made in a recent NYTimes piece, "Reclaiming Travel&#...
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Butter Stories: August 2012
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Wednesday, August 15, 2012. Don't Forget to Look Up, or Why I hate Lonely Planet. Over at Foreign Policy magazine, Michael Moynihan launches a broadside. Against popular travel guides, Lonely Planet. For excusing brutal dictators and whitewashing authoritarian regimes:. But what really gets me about LP is the way that it's positioned itself as the guidebook for "Travelers," as opposed to "tourists," a distinction made in a recent NYTimes piece, "Reclaiming Travel&#...
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Butter Stories: Gwangju News - Blossoms to Bottle Rockets: Jinhae’s Cherry Blossom Festival
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Monday, May 10, 2010. Gwangju News - Blossoms to Bottle Rockets: Jinhae’s Cherry Blossom Festival. This is the second of two pieces I wrote for the Gwangju News, a magazine for the international community in our city. Since the pieces haven't been published on their website yet, I'm posting them here for everyone to read. If you want to see the piece as it appears in the magazine (including pictures), let me know and I'll give you the .pdf. Enjoy! Held annually in ...
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Butter Stories: November 2009
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Thursday, November 05, 2009. I don't know if you've heard (maybe you haven't), but I've been training for a marathon. It's been a common refrain around these parts since my friend Prairie and I started training back in July. Four days a week we've gotten up (relatively) early, laced our shoes, and gone out for runs. Apparently, restaurants in Korea close promptly at 10. As we had a marathon the next day, we weren't exactly in the mood for drinking heavily, so w...
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Butter Stories: Gwangju News - Miracle on the Mountain:Haeinsa, Temple of Dharma
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Monday, May 10, 2010. Gwangju News - Miracle on the Mountain:Haeinsa, Temple of Dharma. This is the first of two pieces I wrote for the Gwangju News, a magazine for the international community in our city. Since the pieces haven't been published on their website yet, I'm posting them here for everyone to read. If you want to see the piece as it appears in the magazine (including pictures), let me know and I'll give you the .pdf. Enjoy! Tourists and the faithful shu...
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Butter Stories: Don't worry, we're OK
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Thursday, May 27, 2010. Don't worry, we're OK. Devon and I are coming up on finishing our first year here, and I was in the middle of writing a post looking back when I got a bunch of messages from friends and family back home all asking essentially the same thing: "Are you alive? So I figured I'd deal with those first. So I stand on the front lines of one of the more recent international crises in history, and I have to wonder - should I be scared? It is not somet...
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Butter Stories: January 2010
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Friday, January 22, 2010. How to Speak Korean: Part One in a Series. You may be wondering what, exactly, could be delicious about anything involving kimchi. And yes, dear reader! You may be right! You're walking down the street on a frigid Korean winter night. Tiny snowflakes dance in the wind as a flurry passes over the streetlights. Not two minutes later, the woman brings a large, hot bowl to your table. Inside is a red liquid, bubbling furiously. Through...Dive ...
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Butter Stories: August 2010
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. At the end of July, Devon and I were lucky to have her Mom and sister Ashley come to visit us for a week and a half. We hit the usual touristy areas Seoul and Busan, the less usual, but equally as touristy Geojedo and Oedo, and the unusual, and not very touristy, but spectacular Jinju. Are the result of that trip. We started our journey in Seoul shopping along crowded artisan streets, in jam-packed markets, and in the swank downtown area...
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Butter Stories: My Summer Vacation! (Finally)
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Living like it's Shark Week since 2006. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. At the end of July, Devon and I were lucky to have her Mom and sister Ashley come to visit us for a week and a half. We hit the usual touristy areas Seoul and Busan, the less usual, but equally as touristy Geojedo and Oedo, and the unusual, and not very touristy, but spectacular Jinju. Are the result of that trip. We started our journey in Seoul shopping along crowded artisan streets, in jam-packed markets, and in the swank downtown area...