TA - seven months

April 4, 2005

A Good Start

I arrived in Amsterdam Saturday morning. I've slept on my bed in the Stayokay Amsterdam Vondelpark and on the hallway floor and my bed at The Flying Pig.

Amsterdam is disorienting. Once you are accustomed to the circular electrical plugs, the signs, and the various languages spoken, you have to accept the reality of prostitutes standing behind glass doors in hopes of gaining your attention and money.

And once you accept the reality of a Red Light District, then you have to accept the unreality of where a hit of the city's progressive politics can take you. I'm off the floor now, so I think that's a good start.

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that's a great start. please smoke enough pot for the both of us, that's all one SHOULD do in amsterdam, really.

take care dear boy
angela

Anonymous
April 05, 2005 1:00 PM

no one actually lives in amsterdam; everyone is here merely to smoke enough for the both of us, our ancestors, and all of our descendants.

it wasn't smoke. it mushroomed into something much bigger.

tevan
April 05, 2005 1:37 PM