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Spring Springs in Budapest
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Spring Springs in Budapest

Soon the restaurants and bars along the Duna will open up, and the ones I'm talking about are the kind that have a small cottage for prepping food, surrounded by picnic tables and mismatched seating, string lights, umbrellas and awnings, places where if you drop a french fry it lands in dirt.
A Middling Winter
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A Middling Winter

On another occasion recently, I took a stroll across the Árpád bridge and snapped this photo of the Danube. There's something particularly wintery about the scene, the way the clouds hover and throw the light of the Parliament back onto the surface of the river. The bony trees.
Bullet: The Genesis
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Bullet: The Genesis

I met Bullet Shih in the summer of 2002, a couple of years after he arrived in Budapest and a couple of weeks after I did. We were both part of the same ragtag Bohemian circle of friends that included expats and refugees, poets and pornographers, artists aspiring and actual.
Drinking a Beer
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Drinking a Beer

I'm drinking a beer. Not trying to cut back because I don't drink that much. Joined a gym. First time in
Day 375: What is this, Top Chef?
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Day 375: What is this, Top Chef?

Chopping onions for gulyás while plotting my creative jailbreak. Ditch the middlemen. Why let some suit decide if my stories matter when I could build my own platform?