This is my second night in the city, and aside from a decision not to buy Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" (this will haunt me for quite a while), I'm extremely content. We arrived in the city yesterday afternoon, making the mistake of taking a taxi from the airport for $60 (I'm converting all…

A few years ago, I received an e-mail from Julian, a dumpster diver from Canada, who had visited http://www.myspace.com/dumpsterdiverthemusical, a myspace site for the dumpster diver musical.After congratulating me on the musical, he wrote that he'd been living on and off from the dumpster for 5 yea…

A remarkable meetingToday I had the honor of meeting Andre, another descendent of Bertel Pedersen. The only thing that connect us is that we both descend from Baadsman Bertel Pedersen who stranded at Mossel Bay with the ship Cronprincessen aft Dannemark in 1752. We both have an interest in the genea…