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Posts tagged Amsterdam

Half-Ass (28)

Half-Ass (28)

You can tell normalcy is making a comeback when the talk of the town turns to coyotes.

Robert DuncanDecember 15, 2016coyote, grief, travel, Amsterdam, small town, Northern California, Fairfax California, restaurant

Jimmy Hoffa Found! (24)

Jimmy Hoffa Found! (24)

I talk a big game when it comes to lasagna. But, to tell the unbaked truth, I think I eat more of Sonia’s spaghetti these days.

Robert DuncanNovember 18, 2016lasagna, meatball, sausage, picky eater, sausage factory, Amsterdam, restaurant, Northern California, Bay Area

End of Empire (23)

End of Empire (23)

First text this morning — early, Amsterdam time — came as I was fitfully dozing between acts of a CNN dream-play about the apocalypse.

Robert DuncanNovember 10, 20162016 election, Trump, isolationism, walls, empire, America, Bay Area, Amsterdam

Merl, Meet Merl: A Brief History of Happenstance in Holland (22)

Merl, Meet Merl: A Brief History of Happenstance in Holland (22)

Eventually, in Amsterdam, you get up from the blank wall.

Robert DuncanNovember 4, 2016Amsterdam, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, names, hippies, coincidence, bars

Oudeschans-comma-39 (21)

Oudeschans-comma-39 (21)

We’ve been holed up here a week. Superannuated gangsters of something or other, gone to the mattresses.

Robert DuncanOctober 26, 2016Amsterdam, Sandy Pearlman, Blue Oyster Cult, grief