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Portugal-The God Molecule On Blast

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Life After Luau Turning up the volume on the Signal and Pulse of THE GOD MOLECULE today. Forget about "near death experiences" and DMT. The light at the end of the tunnel may have been cancelled due to freakonomic budget cuts. So what: You can't ingest or possess or own or buy this stuff.You can only tune into it. Madeira, named after the island it is made on, is like no other wine in the world; but Funchal , is like no other island I have been on, including the Hawaiian ones. The reason being it is Kauai and The Big Island, Maui and Oahu, all in one spot--It has the botanical gardens of Kauai; the hip and trendy downtown of Oahu; the sub tropical climate of Aloha;, the passion fruit, bananna & mango trees and sugar cane of Maui; and it's really a beautiful place on earth and piece of heaven. Eddie Would Go Oprah has misstated law of attraction. You do not attract what you want. You attract what you are. That's how the law of attraction works in Hawaiian Huna...

Málaga, Spain-“The Paradise City”

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Wherever I go there I am: Mr Right Now, under the foot of the Mediterranean Sea and under the Andalusian sunshine, meets Mr Jones. There's a black-haired-flamenco-looking girl watching her boyfriend playing guitar. Think---The Counting Crows... Cut Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances... Not everyone knows that one of the GR8st Artists of the 20th century, Pablo "Everything you can imagine is real" Picasso was born in Málaga, one of the warmest climates in Spain. As one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world thanks to the Costa del Sol, where life is a beach, I had to check this place out. The Friendly Skies-United Breaks Guitars I finally got my luggage back from United Airlines travel partner, Air Italia- After 5 days! Sure enough, their universal power tool --duct tape was wrapped around my Samsonite. Can't someone make a suitcase out of Black Box material just in case Italian ground crews are offloading our stuff,WTF? How much does my luggag...

Málaga, Spain-“The Paradise City”

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Wherever I go there I am: Mr Right Now, under the foot of the Mediterranean Sea and under the Andalusian sunshine, meets Mr Jones. There's a black-haired-flamenco-looking girl watching her boyfriend playing guitar. Think---The Counting Crows... Cut Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances... Not everyone knows that one of the GR8st Artists of the 20th century, Pablo "Everything you can imagine is real" Picasso was born in Málaga, one of the warmest climates in Spain. As one of the most visited tourist destinations in the world thanks to the Costa del Sol, where life is a beach, I had to check this place out. The Friendly Skies-United Breaks Guitars I finally got my luggage back from United Airlines travel partner, Air Italia- After 5 days! Sure enough, their universal power tool --duct tape was wrapped around my Samsonite. Can't someone make a suitcase out of Black Box material just in case Italian ground crews are offloading our stuff,WTF? How much does my luggag...

Keeping Up With The Indiana Jonzes

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Hump Day- It's not just on Wednesdays . It's on like Donkey Kong in Afrique Du Nord. Here I am with Dude and his significant other, Joe Camel. This fine lad has decided to date outside his species. He'd walk a mile for his camel; begging the question-What is more hazadous to his health--- smoking a camel or sleeping with one? My Life According to U2's Beautiful Da y Lyrics continues... see the Bedoins fires at night See the oil fields at first flight and now that Air Italia has lost my luggage... what you don't have you don't need it now and the fact that everyone is speaking Italian to me... what you don't know you can feel it somehow It's a Beautiful Day

Keeping Up With The Indiana Jonzes

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Hump Day- It's not just on Wednesdays . It's on like Donkey Kong in Afrique Du Nord. Here I am with Dude and his significant other, Joe Camel. This fine lad has decided to date outside his species. He'd walk a mile for his camel; begging the question-What is more hazadous to his health--- smoking a camel or sleeping with one? My Life According to U2's Beautiful Da y Lyrics continues... see the Bedoins fires at night See the oil fields at first flight and now that Air Italia has lost my luggage... what you don't have you don't need it now and the fact that everyone is speaking Italian to me... what you don't know you can feel it somehow It's a Beautiful Day

The Merchants Of Venice-

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No man is an island but everyone is a crowd Like Nietzsche, when I think of Venice, I think of music, only not Wagner, but Madonna. Venice is a city whose canals, gondolas, madolins, guitars, accordians, and picturesque buildings seem little changed since the Renaissance..I'll never forget the MTV Like A Virgin shoot. Yet, the the city can't really accommodate the new, just the now. One Day Instant Tourist As a pre-packaged tourist-or Pendolaro , it is clear that the end of Venice as a city of Venetians is upon us. I am about to become part of the 80%ers-who stay less than a day in the lagoon. It's not just visited by tourists, but inhabited by them. Even though I am hitting it and quitting it, it seems in the gaze of locals that "we" are just one critical mass, and more than that, from their POV, "always here" and "Here comes everybody!". Yet it remains the epitome of the tourist experience, created and re-created in an instant feedback loo...

The Merchants Of Venice-

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No man is an island but everyone is a crowd Like Nietzsche, when I think of Venice, I think of music, only not Wagner, but Madonna. Venice is a city whose canals, gondolas, madolins, guitars, accordians, and picturesque buildings seem little changed since the Renaissance..I'll never forget the MTV Like A Virgin shoot. Yet, the the city can't really accommodate the new, just the now. One Day Instant Tourist As a pre-packaged tourist-or Pendolaro , it is clear that the end of Venice as a city of Venetians is upon us. I am about to become part of the 80%ers-who stay less than a day in the lagoon. It's not just visited by tourists, but inhabited by them. Even though I am hitting it and quitting it, it seems in the gaze of locals that "we" are just one critical mass, and more than that, from their POV, "always here" and "Here comes everybody!". Yet it remains the epitome of the tourist experience, created and re-created in an instant feedback loo...

Alpha Update: The NFL'S Bob Reif

Alpha Update: The NFL'S Bob Reif

Puppy Love

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Old Dog. New Tricks @Kathy's with His Holiness' the 4th and 5th Dalai Lama's of Tibet. You can teach an old dogma new tricks. I shall call these two K9's Snowball and Lift Ticket.

Puppy Love

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Old Dog. New Tricks @Kathy's with His Holiness' the 4th and 5th Dalai Lama's of Tibet. You can teach an old dogma new tricks. I shall call these two K9's Snowball and Lift Ticket.

Venice Beach Today

Dijon Vu Biking around Venice and MDR, Marina Del Rey-Same old Mustard! And Bob Reif's Lawn Guyland (Long Island) Accent-from the Reif Archives Summer of 2009

Venice Beach Today

Dijon Vu Biking around Venice and MDR, Marina Del Rey-Same old Mustard! And Bob Reif's Lawn Guyland (Long Island) Accent-from the Reif Archives Summer of 2009

Ed Reif in The People's Republic of Santa Monica

Ed Reif in The People's Republic of Santa Monica

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Santa Monica · A Bicycle Field Note The Elixir The Epiphany Chair A bike ride past Chess Park becomes a roll call for Santa Monica’s old radicals—and a meditation on what remains after a place changes around you. Santa Monica Chess Park Memory The People’s Republic Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir The chair looked like a throne, the rabbit looked like a revelation, and the bicycle supplied the philosophy. “What am I on? My bike.” Field Note 01 · Your Move All Good People I biked past Chess Park, where—before September 11—my buddy Bicycle Pete, PBUH, who lived in his van, held court alongside the Old Radicals. There was “Swiss” Pierre, a John Demjanjuk look-alike and kindly grandfather with that Nazi past, sitting all day beneath his rainbow umbrella and ...

Point And Shoot

Back to One

Point And Shoot

Back to One

Amazing Grass

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Wheat Grass PIPL Who ever thought you would eat at a gas station? Get-it-your-Self service has taken a new turn in la la land (Los Angeles)--while walking into the local organic smoothie shop, the owner said, "I'm kinda busy, could you get it yourself...and make me a shot too". Juice Jockey He was talking about wheat grass. The health claims range from increasing energy to improving digestion The chlorophyll, minerals, vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients in a one ounce shot, contains multiple benefits: including anti-aging powers, a GR8 detox, and it helps in building up lean muscle mass and burning body fat . You are not what you eat, you are what you assimilate. Green Juices are the highest in food value. Drinking nutritionally dense Wheat grass juice, for instance,the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth , the blood of all life, liquid chlorophyll, is probably the best thing you can do.A shot of grass will reconfigure your entire bloodstream and rej...

Amazing Grass

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Wheat Grass PIPL Who ever thought you would eat at a gas station? Get-it-your-Self service has taken a new turn in la la land (Los Angeles)--while walking into the local organic smoothie shop, the owner said, "I'm kinda busy, could you get it yourself...and make me a shot too". Juice Jockey He was talking about wheat grass. The health claims range from increasing energy to improving digestion The chlorophyll, minerals, vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients in a one ounce shot, contains multiple benefits: including anti-aging powers, a GR8 detox, and it helps in building up lean muscle mass and burning body fat . You are not what you eat, you are what you assimilate. Green Juices are the highest in food value. Drinking nutritionally dense Wheat grass juice, for instance,the nectar of rejuvenation, the plasma of youth , the blood of all life, liquid chlorophyll, is probably the best thing you can do.A shot of grass will reconfigure your entire bloodstream and rej...

What am I on? My bike.

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Greetings from Basecamp Will Rodgers Park. Went riding with Josh. No face plants, road rash or death cookies (rocks). Completely dialed in, handling every twist and turn perfectly. And... At today's Minnesota Vikings Saint Louis Ram game- The Edward W. Reif Endowment, with The Boys Club of New York.

What am I on? My bike.

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Greetings from Basecamp Will Rodgers Park. Went riding with Josh. No face plants, road rash or death cookies (rocks). Completely dialed in, handling every twist and turn perfectly. And... At today's Minnesota Vikings Saint Louis Ram game- The Edward W. Reif Endowment, with The Boys Club of New York.

The Hangover at SBUXS

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Arrested Development When I took a flight on Lufthansa Wednesday, I watched The Hangover,for 2 of the 12 hour's flight back to LAX. This movie is funny. LM AO. Jeffrey Tambor who played Sid, was in it. Today at Starbucks, in The Palisades, I caught up with Sid. (He drinks drip coffee from a paper cup too). Here's the plot: Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out they'll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning, they can't remember a thing. For some reason, they find a tiger in the bathroom and a six-month-old baby in the close t of their suite at Caesars Palace. The one thing they can't find is Doug. With no clue as to what transpired and little time to spare, the trio must retrace their hazy steps and all their bad decisions in order to figure out where things went wrong and hopefully get Doug back to L.A. in time to walk down the aisle. Here's the Trailer: Went for a bi...

- The Soft Landing of a Loud Mind

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2009 · Santa Monica / Saudi Arabia / Thailand / Macau / Europe / Southern Cross Space Travel Sure Is Fun Greetings from the user-friendly universe: one year of treating Earth like a solar system and every passport stamp like a change in gravity. Mission Control Mars Moon Walk Helium Report Southern Cross See Full Image Show Story Tranquility Base. The ego had landed. In 2009, geography became astronomy. Saudi Arabia was Mars. Thailand was the moon. Macau was a gas giant. Las Vegas was a black hole. The metaphor worked because travel kept changing the laws of the local universe. Launch Orbit Gamble Detach Re-Enter 01 Home base · Santa Monica The user-friendly universe. Mission control was the People’s Republic of Santa Monica: home of the Mac Store, Apple and the forbidden f...

Midnight Express-Istanbul

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Quicker Then A Ray of Light And I feel like I just got home Faster than the speeding light (s)hes flying trying to remember where it all began On my way to the airport as Alex took these pictures.

Midnight Express-Istanbul

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Quicker Then A Ray of Light And I feel like I just got home Faster than the speeding light (s)hes flying trying to remember where it all began On my way to the airport as Alex took these pictures.

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