Looking for Santa in New York City
Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under New York, Audio, Holiday | Leave a Comment
Looking for Santa in NYC
This is the night of the annual Christmas tree lighting ritual at
Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. This year the subject of our
attraction is a colossal 74 foot connifer harvested
in New Jersey, but nowhere near Tony Soprano’s neighborhood. My wife
and I literally cried in our beer last night […]
Thanksgiving in Paris - City of Lights Video
Posted on November 25, 2005 - Filed Under France, Audio, Holiday, Places, Video | Leave a Comment
Photo © 2004 Russell Johnson
City of Lights: A Paris Minute
Windows Media Video
HDTV (39MB) - STANDARD VIDEO
An American in Paris: Thanksgiving 2004
by Russell Johnson
The Story in Audio
MP3
The French are getting fat, so say reports, consuming and consumed by le fast food. You wouldn’t know it by looking at their scrawny turkeys. Dindon rings with onomonopoea. This […]
Thanksgiving Cold Turkey - Heidelberg
Posted on November 23, 2005 - Filed Under Germany, Audio, Holiday | Leave a Comment
Heidelberg Castle ©Russell Johnson
Thanksgiving: Cold Turkey
Brrrrr
Audio MP
5:20
I’m sure, if you are over 18 you have spent some holiday season away from home. A few years ago I flew to Frankfurt, Germany the day before US Thanksgiving for a 1/2 hour business meeting. The meeting was a bust and alone, in a terrible mood, on a […]
The Most Un-China Place in China
Posted on November 10, 2005 - Filed Under Audio, China | Leave a Comment
Bai Wedding - Dali, China
Yunnan Province
The Most Un-Chinese
Place in China
by Russell Johnson
AUDIO-MP3
The lanky groom greeted me at the door to a courtyard, handing me a cigarette. In fact he greeted every male guest with cigarette. I don’t smoke and every time the groom saw me not smoking he gave me a new cigarette, which I […]
