THE red flags and Maoist slogans on pavements and office blocks in Kathmandu, Nepal's pleasant, down-at-heel capital, were daubed in protest.
He is, even after 18 ridiculously dominant seasons in the majors, by all accounts a thoroughly pleasant, down-to-earth guy, a far cry from the Ray Lewis "look at me!" ethic.
It was pleasant and down-to-earth, an un-Hampton, and I could imagine a leisurely summer rhythm of biking, swimming, reading books, taking naps and fixing cocktails at sunset.
For the less ambitious, there is the spectacular playa Los Muertos, well worth the pleasant 1km amble down a track off the Agua Amarga-Carboneras road.
Because of paragraphs like this: Something to eat and somewhere to piss are now high priorities, and I turn down Pleasant Valley toward Haddam Doctors Hospital, which has become my best-choice solo-luncheon venue since I moved away—in spite of its being the sad setting of my son's final hours so long ago.
He passed through the dark forest; he came beneath the stair-like cliff; the moon and the stars were shining, so it was like a day; a silence all around him, pleasant; he sat down and lit his pipe.
Anyway that's one thing to deal with but for the most part a pleasant experience while down on the lawn three Asian kids and one black kid, about five or six years old, are throwing a smaller-than-regulation football around.
After all, what could be more pleasant than to lie down and draw in a flowering field -- especially one that just happens to be ice cold?
Jams 2.0 is a relentlessly pleasant trip down memory lane.
