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don’t hate the player, hate the game.   Although I new that this blog post was coming, I’ll admit that upon arriving in Venice, I hadn’t given much though to the idea of cultural art tourism beyond the topical. (I think that the cultural component is a much more problematic aspect of art tourism than…

Them Bones. I’m easily intrigued by the morbid experiences that history has to offer, so of course, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to visit what the website in Rome calls a “Bone Church”. I was ready for bones, and lots of them. I imagined a place similar to the crypts in Paris, where the walls…

I’ll be the first to forewarn that this post is rife with unwarranted self-righteousness and self-entitlement. Proceed at your own peril.     Now, let’s talk about the service in the food industry in Venice. There are many reasonable complaints by waitresses and workers in the United States because the system of tipping leads to…

Hidden World + Creepy Crawlies   There are in fact around 100 different species of arthropod — a category that includes spiders, insects, centipedes, and mites — that inhabit the average American home, according to the results of a biodiversity survey published in the journal PeerJ on Jan. 19 -Business Insider       There have been many films and novels…