Dan Washburn's Shanghai Diaries

in NYC now

loving the diversity.

photos coming soon …

07.30.2003, 2:02 AM · Summer Tour 2003 · Comments (1)

so, i got this e-mail …

Hi, i ran across your webpage and thought it was really cool. Just curious though, how tall are you? Do you have any pics of you standing next to a shorter asian guy?

It’s for my research

thanks

strange, huh?

07.30.2003, 1:58 AM · Humor

yeah, it’s got a hemi

click here for the first installment of pennsylvania photos, featuring, in order of appearance, hirefrank.com, audrey, a lady with a microphone, sam, ansley, a guy with bad jokes, big ass trucks, lots of people hanging out in, on, in front of and — more commonly — underneath big ass trucks, fat kids in an inflatable truck, fat kids in an inflatable pool, a fat guy who probably isn’t a professional, one very lucky chocolate-covered banana, a smelly baby and some crazy guys on big bad bulls.

07.24.2003, 2:03 AM · Photos, Summer Tour 2003

it’s real good

good friends. good food. kick-ass southern rock. big-ass tattoos. a newpaper-reading cow. and a statue of a confederate soldier who is really a rough rider from the spanish-american war.

what more could a person ask for from four days in georgia?

click here and you will see:

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07.21.2003, 1:25 AM · Audio, Music, Photos, Summer Tour 2003 · Comments (2)

dc talk

so i’m sitting here watching late night television … again. on leno, i saw sir sean connery shake hands with a rapper who goes by the name chingy. surreal. (and no, i don’t watch leno, but sometimes suffer through five minutes of his lame schtick while waiting for conan to come on.) and now on elimidate, some ass clown just uttered this classic: “when they found out i was a fireman, their panties burned off them.” if you’re living in china right now, this is the kind of sublime crap that you’re missing on american tv.

but that’s not what i’m writing to tell you about. i’m writing to tell you to look at the 39 photos i uploaded from my recent visit to my nation’s capital. click here and you will see:

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07.18.2003, 4:09 PM · Photos, Summer Tour 2003, Television

i’m still alive

finally uploaded the final 126 photos from hawaii. i’m home now, back in beautiful bloomsburg, pa. i’ve got lots more photos — from georgia, d.c. and the monster truck festival right here in bloom — that i hope to get to this week, as well. i’d also like to start writing again. it’s on my list of things to do, right behind mowing the lawn, taking out the garbage and washing the dishes. oh, it’s good to be home.

click here to see the new photos.

07.17.2003, 6:29 AM · Photos, Summer Tour 2003