Darrin
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How sharp is your machete?
Male
38 years old
Queens, New York
United States
Last Login: 11/11/2009
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Darrin's Interests
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| General | travel, wine, cooking, writing, punk rock, Latin America, grilled octopus, underground comics, Sick and Twisted Cartoon Festival, siestas | | Music | CBGB off-the-board recordings, The Clash, Thee Hydrogen Terrors, Dengue Fever, NOFX, Descendents, Tom Waits, Helmet, Serge Gainsbourg, Ultra Chicks compilations (made somewhere in Quebec, I think), Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, George Jefferson Airplane, Putomayo Compilations, Shudder to Think, Ely Guerra, Natacha Atlas, Groove Salad (Somafm.com), Diatonis, space music, playing vinyl, poster art (Coop / Kozik / Hess) | | Movies | Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Caligula, Sin City, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, A Clockwork Orange, Monica Belucci | | Television | I prefer my televisions broken. | | Books | John Perkins, Tom Miller, Tim Cahill, Bill Bryson, Mark Twain, Jeff Greenwald, Peter Mayle, Paul Theroux, Travelers' Tales, Bret Easton Ellis, Martin Amis, H.G. Wells, Graham Greene, Tracy Quan, Anthony Bourdain, David McCullough, Noam Chomsky, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson |
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Myspace Book Club, George Jefferson Airplane Fans, World Travels, travel lovers, Lonely Planet Travel, Voyage, Voyage..., Writers Cafe, Lonely Planet Travellers
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Darrin's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Education: | College graduate |
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Invasion of the Mammatus
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The Gumbo Mafia and the Quest for Edible Undergarments
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A tale of culinary patriotism
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Beware of Cargo Pants on the Subway
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Orange, Rough, and Hard
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About me:
I am the author of the book Is There a Hole in the Boat? Tales of Travel in Panama without a Car, silver medalist in the 2007 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, and a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award.
"I consider this little book an exceptional, fun read and highly recommend it."
--Kaye Trout, Midwest Book Review
"DuFord...does what few nonfiction writers can do. His words transport us to another world."
--Lynn Peterson, BookReview.com
"an engaging read."
--Terry South, Quality Book Reviews
"DuFord introduces us to the people of Panama, and he does it hilariously and most perceptively."
--The Panama News
"DuFord is a talented travel writer, and does a good job of mixing political/social context with human observation."
--Levi Asher, Literary Kicks
"Darrin DuFord brings a country and its people to life, and in the process tells some very good stories."
--Alex McGilvery, Armchair Interviews
"DuFord...makes even the most questionable meal, such as bush rat, sound delicious."
--Lisa Kisner, ReaderViews.com
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Bring your appetite. Bring gifts for the king of the Naso tribe.
Join Darrin DuFord as he hikes, bribes, and barters his way across Panama, a perennially overlooked filament of the tropics where DuFord encounters a startling richness of cultures between the nation’s two coastlines. Sitting down with everyone from scientists to town barflies, DuFord samples such local delicacies as fermented corn homebrew and slow-barbecued jungle rodent while, at every turn, taking the more vernacular--and much more enriching--options of transportation.
Whether jostling in the back of a pickup truck serving as the local bus or uncovering how the country is tackling its ecological quandaries, DuFord opens a window into the little-known day to day struggles and pleasures of the Panamanian people. Is There a Hole in the Boat? reveals a Panama that is not simply a place to watch bloated cruise ships edge along the walls of the Canal. It’s a land where the machete can slash through just about anything--except the nation’s spirit.
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Travel articles:
My travel writing has appeared in such publications as Transitions Abroad, Perceptive Travel, McSweeneys.net, and GoNomad. Check out my travel website
The Omnivorous Traveler for my latest articles.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Writers. Readers. Punk rockers. The person who invented Dig Dug. Graffiti artists. Cartoonists. Fans of street food. Zippy the Pinhead. Turducken enthusiasts.
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