hello and thanks for visiting!
I’m Arin and this is where you can find some of my stories
(the blog, infrequently updated, has migrated)
my stories are about such things as
law, travel, pets, ghosts, Japanese dude ranches,
tv, majorettes, jail,
people who want to save old gas station signage,
people who want to stop other people from making traditional Micronesian crafts,
people who eat fruitbat, people who don’t eat fruitbat,
people who eat too much of everything and can’t stop,
people who fall for scam craigslist ads (look in the mirror, Arin, look in the mirror),
and more
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well, here they are:
I was hired over e-mail. A boss I’d never met offered me $14,000 per month.
How could I fall for that?
And what did he really want?
Washington CityPaper
Sept 6, 2007
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a story about chaos, music, cemeteries, majorettes,
and then some more chaos,
in Manila
Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age
(this story was also published in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the St. Petersburg Times)
March 5, 2005
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Can Prison Food Be Unconstitutionally Bad?
wherein your feckless correspondent taste-tests Nutraloaf, and does some legal analysis, and finds the whole thing distasteful
Slate
June 24, 2008
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How Saipan Got Obsessed With Spam
On Saipan, the most populated of the Northern Mariana Islands, people eat a lot of SPAM. SPAM sushi, SPAM-fried rice and SPAM-n-Egg McMuffins are just the start. How did a small island near Guam come to eat so much SPAM, and how does it taste?
Mental Floss
originally published in the magazine a few years ago,
re-published on the web site on July 28, 2008
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Rhode Island-style problems discovered in Saipan
Providence Phoenix
May 28, 2008
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Manhattan Work at Mumbai Prices
A day in the life of an Indian legal outsourcing firm
ABA Journal
October, 2007
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my friend Dianne and I have adventures in Osaka
Christian Science Monitor
October 26, 2006
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Horseback riding in New York City? Yee Haw.
Time Out New York
April 2, 2008
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Why are lawyers so depressed?
Washington CityPaper
November 7, 2007
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How did zebras and giraffes end up in the Philippines?
How did WE end up in the Philippines, with a guy named Mari-juana and his underaged girlfriend?
Adventure Journey Magazine
January, 2006
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uncovering the atomic bomb pits
Preservation Online
October 29, 2004
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Saipan’s food choices leave this vegetarian hungry
but Justice Anthony Kennedy doesn’t seem to mind
Gadfly Online
(also the St. Petersburg Times and the Sydney Morning Herald)
2002
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Bali Drive Leaves Them Lightheaded
no vacation in Bali is complete without a trip to the clink
Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2004
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how can a tv show about New York have no Jews in it?
(this story obviously came out before Charlotte’s season 6 conversion)
Pop Politics/Alternet
March 15, 2002
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there are, of course, many more stories of mine to be read that are not available on the internet
if you’d like to read some more of them
send me an email at aringreenwood at hotmail dot com
and thank you to JCN for fixing up this here web site