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The Adventures of an American Vagabond
(& stories from ridiculously long walks)

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Walk walk walk, no one

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Walk walk walk, no one stops. Hot hot hot, I'm bout to drop. Southern hospitality is BULLSHIT! Most kind folks I've met in south are...

Heading toward Gump House in

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Heading toward Gump House in Beaufort, SC (aka Greenbow, AL). Mostly I just want to get new tapes, take a shower, & charge batteries, th...

Awesome campsite last nite. US

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Awesome campsite last nite. US 17 @ 10 Farms Creek, beside marsh. Almost outta tape, so couldn't get any footage. Luckily no gators to e...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Unbelievable how many 10s of

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Unbelievable how many 10s of 1000s of cars have passed me by as I turn purple under this brutal sun. US 17 South toward Savannah.
Friday, May 11, 2007

Lotsa walking in C-ton. Talked

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Lotsa walking in C-ton. Talked to a guy named Rich & his beautiful girlfriend Sarah for a while, mostly about music. Better find a camps...

Sick of Myrtle B. Got

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Sick of Myrtle B. Got a ride to Charleston y-day. Woke at 6 today, gonna try to find soup kitchen downtown. Living like I'm homeless, I ...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

E-mails to my phone can

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E-mails to my phone can be a maximum of 160 characters. Jay, yours ended at "jour."

Leaving Myrtle Beach

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I'll be heading south along the beach beginning in about an hour. Where will I go? I don't know. I might end up in Maine or somethin...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

I am sending this from

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I am sending this from my phone. It is just a test.

Aimless side effects

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When I finish this adventure, I will have the baddest-ass calf muscles you've ever seen. All this walking with an additional 1/3 of my b...
Monday, May 07, 2007

For all we know, he might be an angel

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Wow! So much to say, but there is no way I can possibly say it all right now. Believe me, though, there will be a book about this. Right now...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Help me get my girl!

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All right, I now know a little bit more about the girl I've written about: She drives a black Nissan Pathfinder (which is probably the o...

Getting down the road

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I am at the library in Covington, Kentucky right now (right across the river from Cincinnati). I'd hoped to provide some updates sooner ...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007

Kicking it off in YSO

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I'm not actually going to kick it off in Yellow Springs (because if I get to Yellow Springs, I will already have kicked it off), but I a...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Girl

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I went to Dino's today, thinking I might actually talk to the girl I mentioned in my previous post. No girl. No talk. That kinda sucks. ...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

You left some stars in my belly

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I have a lot of different things to say here. First, my brush with death exactly one week ago has left me with a new and improved perspectiv...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Colbert edit #3

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I think this one is my best yet, but I want to hear what other folks think. It's basically an extension of Edit #2, except I have made ...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Dead at 33

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Ryan Michael Powell, born December 29, 1973 in Great Falls, Montana, escaped an almost certain violent death by mere inches on this day, Apr...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

Another Colbert video

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I made another Stephen Colbert video today, and this one is totally freakin' hilarious. If you don't piss your pants while watching...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Stephen Colbert edit

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I have a completed a rough draft of my "For Your Editing Pleasure" project, featuring Stephen Colbert. If the YouTube video below ...
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Friday, March 30, 2007

Playing stupid

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It appears that there is a new generation of cop shows hitting the air waves lately. I admit I've been watching some of them. Naturally ...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

For your editing pleasure

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I've been really bored lately, but Stephen Colbert has saved me. Last night on The Colbert Report , Stephen made some comments about Rah...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Goodbye to another friend

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My little buddy Homer's heart stopped beating today at 3:14 PM EDT. He died peacefully. Homer was very full of life until about six week...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Keeping it real

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I occasionally have to remind myself that I really don't care how much traffic the Aimless web site receives. Although sometimes it may ...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

The Daily Show

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I want to be on the Daily Show. Not next week, not next month, but eventually. Perhaps whenever I Aimless my way to the New York City area. ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Biggest scam on the planet

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Have you ever thought about how bad your bank rips you off? First you give them all your money, which they turn into more money that you nev...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Impulsive bastard

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But here is the map of all the places I've driven alone. Believe it or not, most of these lines represent the routes I've taken to g...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Impulsive bastards

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I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I finally took the time today to "draw" up a map with lines representing all...

It's damn near time to vamoose

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In my most recent post I alluded to an anonymous professional golfer who seems to be a regular reader of this blog. He e-mailed me shortly b...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

Digg it!

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Some anonymous professional golfer who lurks here recently told me about digg.com, so I just registered on Digg and entered some information...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Response to trailer comments

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First of all, thank you everyone! Thank you for hanging around, thank you for waiting for the movies to load, thank you for your feedback , ...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Trailer Part I is up!

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I'm sure I still have a lot of work to do, to compress the size of the file and stuff like that, but Part I of the trailer is here, as ...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Seriously, it will be here soon

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If I can only figure out how to turn this FCE project into a reasonably-sized QuickTime movie (instead of a 41.7 MB QuickTime movie), the tr...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Trailer is almost finished

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I'm pretty much done with the trailer; just have some fine-tuning to do before I make it public. Right now I feel really good about it, ...

Referral spam: Please help!

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If anyone knows how to combat referral spam (or referrer spam), please help me. I spend about an hour every day sorting through my referrer ...
Monday, February 26, 2007

Tony Gemignani

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Today at the pizza show Tony Gemignani walked up to me and initiated a short conversation. If you don't know who Tony Gemignani is, he i...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Trailer update

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I can't even begin to express how excited I am about the trailer I'm putting together. It's already four minutes long and I anti...
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Cutting and editing...

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...And changing my mind and unchanging my mind and unbreaking my heart and teaching myself yet another set of skills and wondering and eatin...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Quasi-Aimless

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OK, so I'll have to come up with a name for the trial run video I'm currently working on. How about Quasi-Aimless? I mean, that'...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

What's your son's name?

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If you were reading the "California to Ohio" series of entries I had been writing (and may continue eventually), you probably reme...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Setting up a structure

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A few days ago I began watching my tapes all over again. This time through is a lot different than the first time, though, for a lot of reas...
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