March 8, 2010
In a desperate attempt to not feel like a complete loser by drinking alone at a bar in Rome, I decided to employ a fantastically awesome story about how I was Vanessa Simone, an American author writing a book about love, sex and dating around the world and yes, sweetie, it is so nice to meet you, too. And, yes, I did come up with that book idea to, ahem, hopefully grab someone to conduct my experiments with for, you know, research. RESEARCH.
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November 6, 2009
Venice carefully deconstructs what it means to be human. The city itself demonstrates the beautiful parallels of human emotion: happiness and sadness; decay and liveliness; love and hate. What once was an elegant paradise for Europeans has literally started to rot in its own gorgeousness and, although the sadness is pervasive, there is something so… alive… about it, still.
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