This pretty much made my year. You can visit The Writer’s Almanac website and listen to the podcast here, or I’ve archived the MP3 here for posterity. Just wow.
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Archives for March 2010
“Place-dropping” The Scary Nudists I Encountered In Tulum
Misty Harris included a quote from me in her latest trend piece on “place-dropping:
“The inevitable I-wanna-be-on-vacation factor makes the pretension harder to dismiss,” says Robert Lanham, bestselling author of three books on cultural foibles.
Lanham suggests the key to a successful place-drop is knowledge of which travel war-stories will help and which will hinder — something he carefully considered after stumbling upon a clothing-optional beach during a recent trip to Mexico.
“It’s not going to win me any favours to place-drop that ‘John Denver songs sure sound better when performed on a pan flute by leathery nudists in Tulum,’ ” says Lanham. “And yes, this happened.
Aforementioned, scary nudists after the jump. Too bad I don’t have video of them playing “Annie’s Song.”
