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Nomadology Crossing from the personal to the political, local to global, Nomadology is a blog of anecdotes, gonzo journalism, personal confessions and poetry by digital gypsies on the nature of travel in a globalised world. URL http://www.dislocated.org/nomadology Last update 3 weeks 7 hours ago November 21, 2006 19:48 three - lolli How can one feel comfortable in a cyclo? How can one feel comfortable in a cyclo when those that drive them are often doctors, lawyers, artists that lost their citizenship during the war.... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 19:48 Nomadology book Melbourne launch - nic Undergrowth & Dislocated.org present the Melbourne launch of the first Nomadology book at St Jeromes on Thursday 23rd November. From documentary-making in the central Australian desert to cruising... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 04:49 fnhopy behyqnmcs - nomadic philo-sophy kixt leai rbjonhz jstmrp bvig junlaosw... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content November 18, 2006 20:48 Ding Bu Dong! - tomtom (from my journal, drunk in Guangzhou, thursday night) Well ... I'm on the mo-foken mainland, yo! Guangzhou. it's as ridiculously, spectacularly pimped out as i'd feared - and hoped... i'm down on... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content November 16, 2006 19:48 a-ha - aggy actually i didn't even last 2 weeks; i hightailed it. split the city and landed up here in a cottage somewhere in the hills near mur-bah. my eyes still sting and even my blood feels tired. i'm... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content November 15, 2006 23:08 Golly - tomtom I'm in Ma On Shan. 35 stories up, staying with a friend's mum, who has been here teaching english for the past four years. It's a shoebox apartment, literally - Daphne has a narrow vertical... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 So why are you going to China? - tomtom a: 'Ummm ... to look at things?' b: 'To have a cultural experience.' c: 'To become enlightened. And get a cheap new mobile.' d: 'Because Japan is sooo last decade.' e: 'For the dumplings. And the... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 Again - lolli 10/11/2006 AGAIN A lover in Hanoi A lover in Hanoi would justify our spread – like pork on the bed. Crayons melted in differently drawn tshirts, the fan whirling overhead. The haze misting... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 Week one of two - lolli 31/10/06 DOWN A lover in Hanoi A lover in Hanoi would be transitory. You would leave the naked bed to fuck on the balcony from which you wave to your green tea neighbours in the morning. In... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 Pedagogy of time… with a sidetrack on will - gathaka The kids would sit in my office after some offensive act The persecution of a weaker student Verbal or physical The abuse of a teacher The persistent disruption of a class Theft… First there... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 last 2 months - aggy i think i am about to stop, atleast briefly, in one place for more than 2 weeks (which hasnt happened for about 4 months). i am excited, but also nervous to see what will happen when the... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 migratory birds in the Antibes - nomadic philo-sophy It's fucking hot here; everyone's skin shines like post-op plastic. There are producers lying in stucco-arched doorways with their best friends' mothers; young girls drunk on bottles of full cream... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 Leftovers - nic What happens when a collector of dead people’s lives dies? When people pass away, they leave an almost unbelievable amount of stuff behind. Shoe-boxes full of tram tickets, gilt-edged plates,... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 Don Delillo on tourism - nomadic philo-sophy "To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don’t cling to you the way they do back home. You’re able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content 23:08 A further Invisible City ( VI ) - miles The traveler approaches Olembach by train at sunset, over a flat expanse of cropless paddock, of profitless soil. There is the smell of burning rubber or something worse and occasionally the... Categories: Freshly Sprouted - latest site content

Freshly Sprouted - latest site content three - lolli Nomadology book Melbourne launch - nic fnhopy behyqnmcs - nomadic philo-sophy The Doctrine of the Heart - Exhibition by Levin Diatschenko Ding Bu Dong! - tomtom a-ha - aggy NOMADOLOGY - MELBOURNE BOOK LAUNCH - THURSDAY 23rd NOVEMBER - ST JEROMES Burning Heart Revolt Golly - tomtom So why are you going to China? - tomtom Again - lolli Week one of two - lolli Pedagogy of time… with a sidetrack on will - gathaka last 2 months - aggy migratory birds in the Antibes - nomadic philo-sophy more		undergrowth newsfilter Protests and arrests continue in Weld Valley Wilderness Police Attack Protestors Causing Severe Injuries Protests and arrests continue in Tasmania's Weld Valley Wilderness Are we moving on, or engaging? Amazed by Overmundo Interview with Lalya Gaye Building Green in DC Milton Friedman and the Social Responsibility of Business A Whale of an Auction The Week in Sustainable Mobility (11/19/06) STOP G20 Convergence Actions, Melbourne Street Confrontations at G20 Protest more

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