“Oh no! You may have won the war, but I will not cede my moment of baby’s breath under your dirty drippings.”
The Grump
Land of 20,000 Tailors
Long weekend in Hoi An, Vietnam, former port town halfway down the long thin Vietnamese coast. Like all of this area, Arabs, Chinese, and Japanese traded here for centuries until the river […]
Eating Penang
Stopped off in George Town, Penang, Malaysia last week. A side jaunt on the way home from a long stretch. If you’re in the area, you can probably smell it. Like Singapore, […]
Koh Ssssssamui
Took a recent weekend trip to Koh Samui. A chill little island in the south, that to date, is not quite as busy as other beach areas. Part of the reason for […]
Eyes on You
As an aside, what do you call an almost aryan. You wouldn’t say aryan-light, would you? It’d be aryan-dark, right?
Land of 10,000 Temples
We did achieve a concession from our brother monk, that indeed there were probably good Muslims and indeed, there were bad Buddhists.
Decadent Pretension
…for the price of a round trip airfare to New Delhi, one can sample Indian-inspired bites…
Don’t Take Candy From Strangers
It’s one of the first lessons we learn when we go out into the world as children.
Happy Songkran
Where else can you squirt strangers with water with no retribution
The Killing Fields
The people in the hills, per our guide, had nothing in their heads, because they’d never gone to school. The government could tell them anything. This ensured a steady supply of people needing training and interrogation.
Secret Asian Man 