http://auyon.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Moustachioed en Vox Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:35:51 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/change-of-address.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/change-of-address.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/change-of-address.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:35:51 -0700 Dear readers, After much consideration, I have decided to ship my blog to blogspot.com. The primary reason is that vox.com is inaccessible on the old computer I have been lugging around, and now, 9 months into my travels, I am taking a stand. 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I arrived there at around midnight, and was greeted at the desk by a guy wearing a button-do... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/brothels-that-look-like-nightclubs-and-other-assorted-turkish-fun.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300f48cf0b4530002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/these-things-happen-at-airports.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/these-things-happen-at-airports.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/these-things-happen-at-airports.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:11:47 -0700 As I stood in front of an empty check-in desk at Rio’s Galeão airport, due to the extended disappearance of the airline representative who had failed to inform me that she would be taking her dinner break sometime between asking me for my passpor... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/these-things-happen-at-airports.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300e398ef83e60005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/good-morning.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/good-morning.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/good-morning.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:46:56 -0700 Dawn is breaking. It is the beginning of my last day in Rio. I just woke up on the floor of the 9th story apartment of a Dutch painter named Dré in downtown Centro, and am currently stationed on the balcony of said apartment, wearing a pair of sh... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/good-morning.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300f48d08d1ed0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/family-matters.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/family-matters.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/family-matters.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:50:06 -0700 My parents and Arnob, my elder brother (who will heretofore be referred to as “Da,”) arrived at Galeão, Rio’s international airport, at 1 p.m. on February 16th. I had left the choro festival in São Paulo a few days early, on an overnight bus, in ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/family-matters.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300e398ea2aec0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/movement-parties-no-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/movement-parties-no-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/movement-parties-no-1.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:41:08 -0700 It was 9 a.m. on February 9th, and I was sitting on a bus bound for São Pedro, a 30,000-person town in the middle of the state of São Paulo, for the fourth annual National Choro Festival. The Rio contingent of choro enthusiasts had organized for ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/movement-parties-no-1.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300f48ce3541a0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/carnaval.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/carnaval.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/carnaval.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:39:27 -0800 Although Rio Carnaval was one of the most eagerly anticipated events on my Watson calendar, it was also the source of much anxiety. Going out alone on a normal Saturday night in nearby Lapa, a seedy neighborhood chock-full of great music joints a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/carnaval.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300e398e13d420004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/an-experiment-in-free-verse.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/an-experiment-in-free-verse.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/an-experiment-in-free-verse.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:33:30 -0800 Preface: Dear friends and family, I must first apologize for the lateness of this message. It has been a busy three weeks, with Carnavale, a stint at Brazilian music camp, and then a visit from my parents and older brother this past week. I wil... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/an-experiment-in-free-verse.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300e398e090d10004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/columbus-magellan-mukharji.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/columbus-magellan-mukharji.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/columbus-magellan-mukharji.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:13:22 -0800 One of the most spectacular vistas I came across in Ireland was at the Cliffs of Moher. I remember speculating how it must have felt for the first Irish explorers to come upon the massive, mist-enveloped rock faces looming over the waters below. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/columbus-magellan-mukharji.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300e398d842950002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/second-quarterly-report.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Auyon) http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/second-quarterly-report.html?_c=feed-rss http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/second-quarterly-report.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:06:03 -0800 The night before I left for Brazil, I stood in front of my little brother’s bathroom mirror at Oxford and talked to myself. “I don’t have to go to Rio,” I told me. “I could just go back home. My parents would be disappointed, my friends would thin... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://auyon.vox.com/library/post/second-quarterly-report.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398988166000300e398d39cd70002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>