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Mike Ricca: Lenshound of the Baskervilles

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What is it about Dita (over so many others) that bewitches you so?

If you have to ask…

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Classic style pin up model, porcelain white skin, black as sin hair with a innocent smile?

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Fair, but surely she’s not the only one that fits that bill?

Then again, I guess it’s just one of those things you can’t really articulate, like why we prefer a specific flavor of ice cream over another, or why one concerto drives us to tears while other barely elicit a yawn.

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[hands back menu] "One please." (at Sapore Italiano)

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Morning Frost

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Singapore knows what's up. #nodurians

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Today I: • saw the amazing Steve McCurry exhibit at the Rubin • saw the amazing Steve McCurry speak at the Rubin • got the amazing Steve McCurry to autograph my camera • walked 20 blocks guarding the autograph like an overprotective mama bear until I could buy clear mail polish to coat it with • discovered that clear nail polish will fuck up sharpie ink like nobody's business It's been a roller coaster of a day. (at Rubin Museum of Art)

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Today, in “Dumber in the Philippines”

So Smart telecom, one of the Big Two cell providers in the Philippines, has two types of ‘load cards’ for prepaid services—one for data and one for calls/texts. You cannot, say, use a call/text card to load up a wifi hotspot. You can only use it to load up a regular prepaid phone.

You can, however, give said card to a friend to load up their prepaid call/text account and then have them send load to your data account via text (they send a text to a number and the load gets deducted from their account and put into your account).

So what’s the fucking point of having two types of prepaid load cards?

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I feel a little guilty for neglecting this blog while focusing on vagabondvivant , but I barely have the wherewithal to keep one tumblr going at a time, let alone two.

In any case, here’s a woman staring down a squirrel.

[vagabondvivant]

I’m not a superstitious guy; I don’t really believe in good luck charms or wards or the like. Though that said I do feel a little safer keeping my Vagabond’s Totem on hand. The contents include:

my Pilgrim’s Shell

a charm of St. Christopher, patron saint or travelers, from my mother

a train-flattened penny I’ve carried in my wallet for 14 years

a traditional Ambahan Poem (I really need to get it translated) and a piece of fabric handwoven by the Yakan Tribe in Zamboanga, both gifts from a dear friend.

The only thing it’s missing is the small glass evil eye that my sister brought me from Greece, years ago. It’s currently watching over the few boxes I have stored in her basement — I’ll have to rescue it when I can.

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So I call it a “travel blog” but it’s basically more of a “ramblings of a modern day hobo” than anything else. 

Either way, you should follow it because this tumblr is on hiatus for now. Besides, I usually post pictures and everybody likes pictures.

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Eric Heisserer

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James' Perfect Tinder Picture

Smart, good looking, edgy-but-approachable, and a killer smile, all in one shot.

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James

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More Clara & Major

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Clara & Major

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I started a new travel blog to accompany me as I spend the next few weeks walking the Camino de Santiago in France and Spain. Come see! (This blog will be going on hiatus for the duration.)

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Olaf

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nehemy

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