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previous weeks on the odyssey |
Welcome to the European Office Odyssey chronicles! This page provides quick thumbnails (and links) for each and every telenomadic installment from our year-long Office Odyssey through Europe. Interested in a particular country? Don't want to wade through all that scary text on this page? You can also check out the interactive map to speed your merry way to installments from specific countries. Yup -- we're just that extreme.
Week Fifty-Three |
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homeward bound...what darwin didn't tell you...beware bachelor man...on the limitations of architecture...more fun with gaelic...hanging at the waverley...will someone please make the french guy put his pants on...barry white and family values...now entering the travel zone...tattooed white trash digest...that sid sure can drool on himself...final thoughts on a gilded year. |
Weeks Fifty-One and Fifty-Two |
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the power of chiaroscuro...what not to say in toledo...i'd love some dishwater soup...all chistoso, all the time...steliosmania...luton is not london...beware bus 666...bad craziness in the strongbow suite...mmm, british toast...back in the edinburgh 'hood...so long, kristanne. |
Weeks Forty-Nine and Fifty |
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beware the sword of total commitment...don't be a wag...the married guy 'we'... travel tips with russ...we don't condone arson...extreme toenail clipping rituals...reach the beach...it's carnaval, not limp bizkit...rhymes with 'pterodactyl'...milspeaking with kristanne...i been to the u.a.e....second thoughts on john travolta...the return of kristin and miguel...hanging down at the museum of ham. |
Weeks Forty-Six, Forty-Seven, and Forty-Eight |
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david hasselhoff loves topiaries...marcus under arrest...avoiding the porn...we don't know where we're going...randy french senior citizens...art sucks...traditional travel writing...welcome to france, please don't mock the accents...no one likes aspic...getting our money's worth in niaux...gaga for guggenheim...riding that train...so long, marcus. |
Weeks Forty-Four and Forty-Five |
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no wango tango here...better than schenectady...no camping on the balcony of the mediterranean...what would kristanne do...meet don limpio...death furniture...existential bulldozer drivers of spain... performance enhancing beer...paseo politics...sid wears pink gloves. |
Weeks Forty-One, Forty-Two, and Forty-Three |
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what airplanes can do...bad craziness at the munich airport nation state... speaking spanish with sid...whose turn is it to tranquilize joann...real life tales of the alhambra...lesser known tapas traditions...sid and kristanne don't do their laundry...testicles, schmesticles...the dance of the seriously pissed off...hidden dangers of vejer...jim from alabama was here... welcome to gibraltar, please don't shoot the apes...brits on parade...white ronda a la spain...in a cavern, by a canyon...more arguments with toothless old ladies...in tarragona. |
Weeks Thirty-Nine and Forty |
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kathie lee ain't here...burping and bathing with the bohners...koleman krew in da house...putting a hurt on the holidays...what the heck is a multipla...tactical assault shopping...chuck as caveman father...bridge stalkers and craftmongers...the politics of babies...physicist or porn star...the swiss make excellent potato chips...joann behind glass...an office odyssey new year. |
Week Thirty-Eight |
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the list of banned oxymorons...i don't give a shrift...when not to go to slovenia..deck the stumps...how to drive in italy...venice is an island...seeing the sights with lynyrd skynyrd...the new breed of japanese tourists...venetian traffic reports...public ridicule in ravenna...at home in the land of fondue. |
Week Thirty-Seven |
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leaving prague...beating rick steves with a cudgel...trabants on legs...speak czech or spend money...in the czech modern art gulag...what sid and kristanne really look like...strange days at the strahov monastery...the most dangerous sweater in the world...sid as led zeppelin guitar solo. |
Week Thirty-Six |
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big jellyfish down at the ballet...fun with the transitive property ...give it up for the janitor...how dixieland jazz is like george w. bush... pedestrian politics...thank god for the blue guide...yeah, but it's historical assorted rubble...please don't touch my personality piece...not your average chamber music crowd...sid and kristanne without a clue. |
Week Thirty-Five |
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join the homeboy extreme division...which way to the giga-guggenheim...thanksgiving with sid and kristanne...spilling the gravy...american's pie...hey, that's football...welcome to prague, mind your step...mr. heaton, your fifteen minutes are up. |
Week Thirty-Four |
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why not bulgaria...but that apartment is in hungary...rainy days and mondays... understanding the czech conversion rate...nutella as narcotic...what kristanne says vs. what kristanne means...please don't light my socks on fire...what not to buy in the czech republic...does that really say 'colon'...working in a coalmine...all velvet, all the time...hanging at the commie carnival. |
Weeks Thirty-Two and Thirty-Three |
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total quality is our mission...kristanne as cunning sick person...dusseling your dorf...who's detlef schrempf...sausage the size of madonna's ego...the horrors of sticker addiction... the game you play with your soul...kristanne's old school...making a run for the border...what germans do during traffic jams...when atms laugh at you...please don't mock the austrians...meet mr. non-intuitive...still building that infrastructure...dresden...welcome to prague -- not everything shall be stolen. |
Week Thirty-One |
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welcome to hamish's house of haggis...why are you naked...paying the bills... my mom as an embezzling mother teresa...talking with the locals...you say it's your birthday...sid as high school student...what's arthur's seat...michael jordan loves me...hanging down at the waverley...so long, edinburgh. |
Weeks Twenty-Nine and Thirty |
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extreme is as extreme does...famous dead dogs of scotland...will dance for haggis...ace frehley's was the best...when germans drink scotch... hanging out at the loo of the year...why would anyone golf...feral gophers of scotland...not so secret bunkers...keith and tanya don't like to ride. |
Week Twenty-Eight |
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riding life bareback...alliterating your way into the communist party...mind the airborne rats...sid and kristanne get tough...highlander was here...welcome to jerkwater...this house of skye...the loch ness monster as investment strategy...blazing the whisky trail. |
Weeks Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven |
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bass fishermen have it easy...pat buchanan as twisted prankster...kristanne loses it...let the bathroom humor begin...when was that ice age again...bucktoothed hunks of the u.k...nobody likes portly spice...where not to eat mexican food...why tourist season ends in scotland...you don't know me at the superloo. |
Weeks Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five |
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famous dead economists...please don't mock the dead...will technical write for food...the whale swims at midnight...watch out for the bad mouth feel...talking with the scots...even 30 year olds need their boiled food...say hello to mr. mcscucherini. |
Weeks Twenty-Two and Twenty-Three |
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when swiss people rap...have navel, will travel...hanging with quetzalcoatl... doug as child of satan...french toilets like you've never seen them before...man, those are some white cliffs...how not to drive in the u.k...getting profane in scotland...watch our for the seven year olds...promisekeeping on the odyssey. |
Weeks Twenty and Twenty-One |
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the dangers of sid in speedos...eclipses are for weirdos...hangin' down at the metzgerei...romantic tips from someone who knows...welcome to poland...please don't feed the prostitutes... shopping with miss money money...would someone in the czech republic please turn the lights back on...brno no's... at home in the austrian alps. |
Week Nineteen 8.2.99 -- 8.9.99 |
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if norman rockwell were naked...tripping the locals...dispelling common office odyssey misconceptions...extreme banana bread...mary poppins as s&m freak...introducing buttman...the end of the anti flirt...make your own techno music...deep inside the street parade...life in zurich...more puns about butts. |
Weeks Seventeen and Eighteen 7.19.99 -- 8.2.99 |
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the birth of the anti-odyssey...cultural treasures, cultural schmeasures...flying with rene descartes... how not to be on an airplane...coyote ugly etiquette...performance enhancing muesli...beating the high cost of car rentals... no dachsunds in lucerne...beware the anti flirt...swiss family reunion...why not call it 'crappenstein'...zurich blows itself up. |
Weeks Fourteen, Fifteen, and Sixteen 6.28.99 -- 7.19.99 |
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you got to move...must kill chattanooga choo choo...the pleasures of corn dogs...life as a cat...zen and the art of business trips...air canada for everybody...how the other half lives...we'll always have paris...advanced marital techniques...why the swiss are smarter than you...tech writers and knife fighters...back to the butcher shop...eating the cheese. |
Weeks Twelve and Thirteen 6.14.99 -- 6.28.99 |
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american pie...no offramps to Italy...sure I like you, now shut up...even fat girls from minnesota get the blues...alternative nose hair trimming...chuck and lisa as tourist attraction...beer-swilling babies... riding that train...carl is the lizard king...would spike lee wear white shoes...the perils of the tip-o-meter...in the penthouse. |
Week Eleven 6.7.99 -- 6.14.99 |
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nice triptych, dipstych...what the heck is a 'bidet'...pinko washing machines...frances mayes colonizes italy one peasant at a time...must have telephone...stick it up your animazione...sid and kristanne are on deck. |
Weeks Nine and Ten 5.24.99 -- 6.7.99 |
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cast miss money money out of the temple...what's a 'load bearing stud'... voulez vous the bus...sicily as sea otter...plenty of room at the hotel kaos...literary techniques for beginners...ouch...an insider's guide to the italian medical system...like lumber for crutches...kristanne does it all...getting to know your lawn furniture...rome, civitavecchia; civitavecchia, rome... where the heck is sardinia? |
Week Eight 5.17.99 -- 5.24.99 |
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doubting don henley...lord of the dance, lord of my pants...dog days in the vatican...kristanne as nuclear superpower...beyond detente...but this is the clean neoprene...when lynyrd skynyrd doesn't translate...getting kookai with mr. scucherini. |
Week Seven 5.10.99 -- 5.17.99 |
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gladiators are people, too...alternatives to being a rooster...the comforts of pork... stalking the wily tourist...procol harum in the house...come to the catacomb hideout...unbutton 'em if you got 'em. |
Week Six 5.3.99 -- 5.10.99 |
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that doesn't look like the jaw of a beaver... in vino, veritas...tortured metaphors and twisted syntax since 1997...michael, row your boat away from sid...what about ricky schroder...like that, but worse...doughnuts for all my friends. |
Week Five 4.26.99 -- 5.3.99 |
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a telecommuting manifesto...the last ugly american...any port, any storm... we finally get a piece of the pie...just say no...putting the beat back into beatification. |
Week Four 4.19.99 -- 4.26.99 |
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stone cold kristanne...and the cradle will rock...like rome, but less poop... stick shaking protocol for travellers...you don't have to be hungry to eat. |
Week Three 4.12.99 -- 4.19.99 |
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rain, rain, go away...things we hate as much as celine dion...italian revelations...the art historian always rings twice...fun with math...in the land of fertile statues. |
Week Two 4.5.99 -- 4.12.99 |
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street fighting men...bad craziness with roman monuments...the only good etruscan... bring out your famous dead italians...introducing miss money money...mr. scucherini goes roman. |
Week One 3.29.99 -- 4.5.99 |
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in which we arrive...scatology for all my friends... our casa es our casa...is the pope catholic?...introducing mr. scucherini. |