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(Another installment of Lessons from a Wise Sky.)

Anyone can behave considerately on a plane, but it takes real talent and a will of steel to make an ass of oneself in such a controled environment. If you follow these simple guidelines, however, you'll have no problem--but you'll certainly cause a few.

1. Piss-poor comportment on a plane begins even before the plane has left the ground, in fact even before you've boarded the bird. Here's how: Your…

I had big plans. I really did. For the Olympics. No, no. I wasn't participating in a sport (although I might have made a big splash in diving or been hilarious on the pommel horse, or whatever they call it). I have been a fan of the Olympics since that year in the 80s when the Russians didn't come and the US won all the medals. Or was it the other way around? Either way, I lived on gold-medal Big Macs that summer.…

Wherever I am, I take pictures of street art--South Tyrol, Bali, New York City, Nice--but there's no place on earth where the street art is more developed than in Brazil. As I was taking these pictures, I felt as if I were walking through the largest museum in the world. Rio de Janeiro, the world's first museum…