Security Theater

..., Islamic Jihad flags, Hezbollah videotapes, and inflatable Yasir Arafat dolls (really). All these things I’ve carried with me through airports across the country. I’ve also carried, at various times: pocketknives, matches from hotels in Beirut and Peshawar, dust masks, lengths of rope, cigarette lighters, nail clippers, eight-ounce tubes of toothpaste (in my front pocket), bottles of Fiji Water (...

... opportunity of being able to start over, knowing what I know now there's no way I could possibly go wrong. Or is there? Stay tuned for the next episode in which I go on a catering gig, perform a competence-test, go to a jobinterview for a temporary job at a place selling hunting equipment and pocketknives, and ask someone out on a hot date! I'm sure to mess up at least one of those activities.

... stores with these displays as such in random shops targeted at both gawking foreigners and the historically prideful of España.  And for the camp-aficionados, they also have some of the best steel pocketknives in the world.  I couldn't unpress my face from the glass in the first couple of weeks... Your typical calle in Toledo.  This is the one where our favorite restaurant is.  Hummis like...

question about the patient possessions room

Thursday, Farfarello, and MOMO have reached the Patient Possessions Room, and I'm wondering if there's anything of use they might find in there. Is it too much of a stretch to assume there might be pocketknives or something along those lines? Also, Thursday's a police officer in "real life" - would a gun be out of the question? (I'm assuming it is, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to check!)

... of bed saturday morning to find what kind of flea markets the pittsburgh area has to offer before meeting up with family.  As ever, I'll be on the prowl for bits of dead peoples' junk.  pocketknives to augment my collection, dried out tins of lanolin and the odd mixing bowl.   a wooden spoon if we're lucky.  comical sight of yesterday, me walking down seventh avenue toward 14th street subway ...