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Bucket List Pt.2: Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams

Note: If you're new to this particular feature (ie. my friend Big D and I's project to make a reverse bucket list of all of my past occupations so he can reverse-replicate my life) I suggest you catch up  here  and  here  . So, I had absconded from Dunedin and its itinerant work and, after a brief sojourn in the Orient where my father was living, I decided to move on. But to where? I had had enough of 18 year-old solo travel and my gap year was coming to a quick end. Anyone who has read this blog more than one time will know the obvious and logical answer to this question. Has there ever been born anyone with a more hearty love of the U!S!A! than me, Veronica Montebellucci? No, no there is not. Who secretly, and creepily, had decided that Astoria, Oregon was their personal Arcadia at age 10 and then later made a pilgrimage there nigh on 20 years later to circle the Goonies house seven times? Whose number one best memory is eating Space Dogs at the whimsically nam...

RIP Roberts Blossom

It is a sad day here at ijustwanttoconquerpeopleandtheirsouls. Roberts Blossom gentleman, poet and all around BAMF  died   yesterday. Sadness. Those regular readers will recall my  heartfelt ode  to the Salt Man, and my general hero worship of the man who taught Kevin Mcallister (and us , dammit) about the power of forgiveness and demonstrated,  with a well-wielded snow shovel, the importance of vigilante justice. Rest in peace, good sir. I hope the pavements of heaven are salted with diamonds.