Perhaps you missed the last visit of the majestically inbred boy-king of Egypt as he was hauled about the world for all to revere. And maybe you’ve never graced the great halls of the British Museum to look upon its chunks of Grecian monuments. Or stepped up to the mighty pyramids and been harassed into [...]
Apr 17, 2010 | Categories: China, Mexico, Modern Wonders of the World, Other | Tags: all you can eat, buffet, Chinese Food, chino, crowds, Distrito Federal, long lines, Mexico City | Leave A Comment »
Feb 23, 2010 | Categories: Egypt, Other, Poetry | Tags: arab culture, city, Crazy, desert, dust, market, night, religion, Travel | 4 Comments »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 68 In the dark corner of a far away forlorn church stand these three forgotten souls. Bruised, dirty, chipped and abandoned they doze like wallflowers in the shadows as patrons play hooky for every reason but lack of sin. In their bright vestments creased with dust the saints and [...]
Feb 09, 2010 | Categories: America, Europe, France, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: american football, Catholicism, christianity, Jesus, religion, superbowl, tea party | Leave A Comment »
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Feb 06, 2010 | Categories: Europe, Other, Spain, Traces of Progress | Tags: basque country, camino de santiago, discontent, discussion, dissent, graffiti, outhouse, social commentary, spray paint, subversion | 1 Comment »
No, the four different bread products aligned so neatly on the plate is no mistake. That – along with a cup of lukewarm tea and some soft cheese – is what you eat for breakfast after a night on a rickety train sailing south into Upper Egypt. That is all a stomach can handle. Our [...]
Jan 28, 2010 | Categories: Egypt, Other, War on Dreams | Tags: battle, bread, breakfast, Cairo, collision, danger, Luxor, train, Travel | 1 Comment »
They came over the hills and to a crossroads. It was hot, dry farmland, with vineyards and sunflowers spreading out every direction. The pilgrims carried mochilas on their sweating backs, and were tired from travel. They were also a little dazed from the Spanish sun. At the crossroads they paused and considered. Their trusted yellow [...]
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: Europe, Spain | Tags: El Camino de Santiago, Farmers, Farmland, Peregrino, pilgrimage, potatoes, Small Towns, The Way of Saint James, tricks, walking, yellow arrows | Leave A Comment »
Two pigs beget one. Such is the way of pigs, as it has been since the beginning. In the first months, Pig rolls amid the muck, snorts his own excrement, and eats whatever morsels and collected orts are deposited into his sty. It is a base life, one of pure sensory perception, instinct, and consumption, [...]
Jun 13, 2009 | Categories: America, China, Fables, Other, Vietnam | Tags: consumption, excrement, Humor, instinct, perception, pigs, social commentary, stories, swine | Leave A Comment »
May 28, 2009 | Categories: Other, Vietnam, What Are Sidewalks For | Tags: burning, Humor, incense, odors, sidewalks, smoke, things on the ground, walking | Leave A Comment »
Dear “White Bear,” WHITE BEAR! Your skin’s hue of Sprite bottles, severe seasickness, and apple candy is cause for concern. Your sallow belly is not hidden behind your crooked tie. Neither is that torso spanning scar. A vicious fight it must have been. Your American flag top hat, raised arms with flashing cards and a [...]
May 24, 2009 | Categories: America, Letters to Whomever, Vietnam | Tags: acid, american dream, bears, Humor, Ken Kesey, nonsense, race, Ridiculous, social commentary, waste basket | Leave A Comment »
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Apr 16, 2009 | Categories: Other, Traces of Progress, Vietnam | Tags: communism, flowers, gardening, hammer and sickle, ho chi minh city, Humor, parks, saigon, social commentary | Leave A Comment »
It was the promise of ice cream that lured us in – like lost children on a hot day. The shop was tucked into the corner, where the unbreaking row of thin French-style buildings angled off, with an excess of greenery spilling out from its dark interior so that, squinting ever so slightly, it resembled [...]
Mar 31, 2009 | Categories: Other, Vietnam | Tags: architecture, art, Cafe 100 Roofs, Crazy Buildings, Dalat, Design, Ice Cream, Kitsch, trapping people, traps, tricks | Leave A Comment »
It is a stigma China may never shake. Today it is the source of many unfair prejudices and a great number of jokes; the internet’s tubes are filthy with inflamed diatribes, dog-friendly campaigns and slogans, and reports of official attempts to curb the ancient custom of canine consumption. Coming to China on the proverbial eve [...]
Mar 08, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Vietnam | Tags: Chinese Food, dog meat, Dogs, Eating Dogs, gou rou, things chinese people do to their dog, ugly lap dogs | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 58 A Bedtime Story Once there lived a little gun made of the finest metals called Little Red Killing Hood. She was a spoiled gun as both her Country and the World loved her very much. One day, when her Country was making trouble, it said, “My child, you [...]
Feb 21, 2009 | Categories: America, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week, Vietnam | Tags: Guns, Hippies, Military, social commentary, Vietnam War, Violence, War | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 36 Asia is a pagoda made of Samsung television sets. Personified within this architectural beast’s tapered walls and flashing postmodernist programs is every repressed, suppressed, depressed or otherwise pressed living being – man, animal, and plant – of recent Asian country-itude just waiting for their own opportunity to feed [...]
Aug 07, 2008 | Categories: China, Other, South Korea, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Asia, Humor, luck, Modern art, Seoul, social commentary, television tower, TV | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 20 Free range cattle! Hooray for their freedom! And look at the chain of consumption – gloriously short! From us, to the ground, to them, to us. Hooray for trash eating cows! And like that we have achieved a picture title and focus. As you know, this is the [...]
Mar 24, 2008 | Categories: Cambodia, Other, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Cow, Expat, Free Range, Kampot, Ridiculous, Trash, Trash Eating Cows, Trash Talking, Trash-eating | Leave A Comment »
ASIA – The remains of an unidentified snake were found stamped to the side of a beach town road on Wednesday. Authorities are investigating the possibility of foul play, but no official statement has been issued. A spokeswoman for the local police department was hesitant to assume any link to the recent fish murder of [...]
Mar 05, 2008 | Categories: NEWS FLASH, Other | Tags: Cambodia, crime, Expat, Ridiculous, roadkill, snakes | Leave A Comment »
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Feb 06, 2010 | Categories: Europe, Other, Spain, Traces of Progress | Tags: basque country, camino de santiago, discontent, discussion, dissent, graffiti, outhouse, social commentary, spray paint, subversion | 1 Comment »