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The Cleveland Museum of Art really deserves a higher profile, esp. with the enlargement/renovation. Very nice setting as well.
The Philadelphia Museum also deserves more attention.
 
The lesser known art museums in DC (e.g., Portrait Galley, Freer/Sackler, Hirschorn, Phillips Collection) are better uses of time than the National Gallery, which is poorly laid out and rather uneven, although their contemporary art collection is quite good.
 
The Norton Simon has some nice Asian peices but otherwise not worth the trip.
 
The Isabella Grdner is very worthwhile. I liked it more than the Museum of Fine Arts which seems to have far too many portariuts of dead white guys.

Have been to 40+ countries---wifi and other access can vary. Time zones, jetlag from a big trip, etc. I don't take access for granted unless I've been some place before. There can be gaps in the US--mountainous areas (even in the East), the desert SW (including national parks). I wouldn't be too presumptive, plus the time it takes to catch-up.

Have been to 40+ countries---wifi and other access can vary. Time zones, jetlag from a big trip, etc. I don't take access for granted unless I've been some place before. There can be gaps in the US--mountainous areas (even in the East), the desert SW (including national parks). I wouldn't be too presumptive, plus the time it takes to catch-up.

Have been to 40+ countries---wifi and other access can vary. Time zones, jetlag from a big trip, etc. I don't take access for granted unless I've been some place before. There can be gaps in the US--mountainous areas (even in the East), the desert SW (including national parks). I wouldn't be too presumptive, plus the time it takes to catch-up.

Disclosing real names is a violation here because it's an invasion of privacy (ditto the clients' names). If you're familiar with Google, you can easily find real names in a few seconds.

Disclosing real names is a violation here because it's an invasion of privacy (ditto the clients' names). If you're familiar with Google, you can easily find real names in a few seconds.

I remember someone descrbing a mega-rich client of their's who sounded like a high level entertainment industry figure. The guy clearly protected confidentiality while also discussing another aspect of his business besides the hourly and occasionally longer trade. He was a guy available to the general public with a Rentboy ad, etc. and this would have been late in the era where agencies still existed, too. The guy did not describe the hiring process but rather what he was hired to do and how he was treated (a bit like scum--lots of abusive language).
 
I think the point is/was here, that the rich shop for some of the same providers available for everyone else but the terms often are different----for example, being available in between business engagements at some location of their's---a weekend house or pied-a-terre. In some ways this was not so different from what I saw as a holiday floater in an upper middle brow department store many years ago---sometimes you met local gentry or celebs in person in the higher end departments. Sometimes they had a functionary call or shop and had their order delivered--this tended to happen in the bargain basement. My take away from these kinds of experiences is that the world of the megarich often different from ours--special opportunities, the power of being able things ordinary people, even somewhat affluent ordinary people can't provide. But sometimes, they shop in the same places for the same things, but with more discretion.
 
One other story about a particular high powered entertainment mogul was that he sometimes found regular "legit" jobs for guys (working and otherwise) he liked in his business enterprises. You could see this as generosity or a different kind of dependency than run of the mill hiring. I don't know if they lasted beyond his interest in having them available.

Yes. Hire him.

Portland is a tough place--I've known several people with relatively marketable skills who've failed to find work there. The Triangle is heavy on strip malls and the kind of place where you always see the same people--friends have left for those reasons. Asheville is nice, but you're kind of isolated from other places. Denver goes through periods of bust and boom---which means real estate goes up and down--other things tend to be relatively expensive and salaries tend to lag salaries. Columbus is a bout the dullest place imaginable and super boosterish---it's where cake mixes get test marketed and dull fast casual and fast food chains originate. It also has easily the worst art museum I've ever seen.

Lots of public wifi sites block more innocuous sites. Not that much of a surprise.

Lots of public wifi sites block more innocuous sites. Not that much of a surprise.

It was an old gymnastics sport (from the 19th century) and it was kept around as a way to help train guys to do well on military physical fitness tests. WWI, which launched things like aptitude tests, probably made this and things like calesthenics part of the PE curriculum. Despite physical labor being much more common then thannit is know enormous numbers of draftees failed PE tests. Of course, now we know fitness in one area doesn't predict it in others. I'll bet a lot of the people who washed out of rope climb were scared of heights rather than unfit.

So, Tristan is in DC at the end of May. I've started with an email a couple days ago. How long is normal for a response...his website says days, sometimes weeks. based on others' expectations, what strategy should I pursue to increase the likelihood in getting something site-up? Does it make sense to send a follow-up? Does his email here work better than RM? He's out of the country for a few days, so I'm guessing phone will be awkward. Any tips would be appreciated.

Mediterranean is no more of a grab bag of ethnicities than Caucasian. In fact, the list of people who used to be excluded from buying property in much of the US tended to be Black and Jewish, and "Mediterranean". The definition of whiteness is pretty elastic and in the mid-19th century being Irish didn't make the cut.in NYC or Boston. The real question is why self-categorization bugs people as opposed to the other way around.
 

Because it’s relativrly simple to find the info and reshashing old stuff often brings flames and tears, rather than clarity. You can see how strong the opinions are already and it’s because he changed position.
 
Plus a large percentage of things people bring up here are the same thing over and over again and it gets annoying to answer questions that a few minutes of searching can answer better.

Because it’s relativrly simple to find the info and reshashing old stuff often brings flames and tears, rather than clarity. You can see how strong the opinions are already and it’s because he changed position.
 
Plus a large percentage of things people bring up here are the same thing over and over again and it gets annoying to answer questions that a few minutes of searching can answer better.

Because it’s relativrly simple to find the info and reshashing old stuff often brings flames and tears, rather than clarity. You can see how strong the opinions are already and it’s because he changed position.
 
Plus a large percentage of things people bring up here are the same thing over and over again and it gets annoying to answer questions that a few minutes of searching can answer better.

Because it’s relativrly simple to find the info and reshashing old stuff often brings flames and tears, rather than clarity. You can see how strong the opinions are already and it’s because he changed position.
 
Plus a large percentage of things people bring up here are the same thing over and over again and it gets annoying to answer questions that a few minutes of searching can answer better.

I hope OP never visits Bangkok, because when he does his inevitable mispronunciations and lack of intonation will leave him stranded at some point. Yes, there are guys who clearly didn't major in English even if it is their first language. But for someone whose native tongue has a completely different grammar (no "perfect" tenses, no gender) writes an ad in English you need a little respect and imagination.

I wondered if the original message was parody given the tedious discussions about this overpriced instragram model.

Saw him early on and found him difficult to engage. A bad day perhaps but I never really got the adoration—fanboydom is often a bad sign. If you Google him, you can get an idea from other sites what happened with him as it was visible in a variety of places. I think moderation her likes to avoid regarding things or getting into personal details or anything that would reveal his real name.

$100 bills are best if you plan to change bills, because of the exchange rate. Check your credit card to see if it has an exchange fee--many do not.

Sounds like a variation on DeMarco, who didn’t have upfront expectations but did make things seem transactional.
 

I wondered if the original message was parody given the tedious discussions about this overpriced instragram model.

I wondered if the original message was parody given the tedious discussions about this overpriced instragram model.