Remember when I said that great things await in 2006? Well, try this one on for size:
In less than 48 hours I leave for Korea.
Seoul, to be exact. Gonna visit my brother there for a while, then take an extended Asian sojourn. Taiwan? You better believe it. Southeast Asia? Perhaps. China? Mongolia? Bangladesh? I […]
I know this is yesterday’s news and all, but holy crap: have you been reading about this mega-tunnel under the US-Mexico border?
I’ve pointed out Micronomicon Abroad before, but it’s worth a second look. An American woman named Maya is traveling through India (after visiting China and Nepal). Good photos and interesting observations. And if that’s not enough for you, check out her scanned in journals (not trip-related).
This year’s sleeper hit: Brokeback Top Gun. You saw it here first.
Let your freak flags fly, is what I say. When in Bahrain, as the saying goes. Perhaps his burka was at the cleaner?
To the People:
The Prospect reviews superstar Senegalese footballer Patrick Vieira’s new autobiography and says it “confirms that soccer beats banking as the world’s most globalised industry.” I’d say drugs, but soccer and banking make fine choices, too.
“Vieira was only 19 and already captain of Cannes when, in 1995, he was bundled into a helicopter and […]
A Canadian friend of mine from my time in Taiwan (yep, I’m lookin’ at you, Rob Junior*), once told me he grew up way far north in Saskatchewan.
How far north?
“Well,” Rob said, “my home town is about a 12 hour drive north of Regina**. Well, actually about eight hours — if you’re going […]
Phnomenon is an excellent new food/drink-centric Cambodia blog. It is for the Kingdom what Noodlepie is to Vietnam.
As I’ve mentioned before, the Chinese think BIG when it comes to engineering. Peep their new project.
Kids, it’s time, once again, for the 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005 edition. I think #1 is right-on. (Though, if you ask me, #50 gets a bad rap.)
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Thanks to Miles B. for passing along this moving op-ed from Matt Pottinger, who recently left the Wall Street Journal, at age 31, to join the Marines. More info here.
Pottinger says that living abroad made him more patriotic. I feel the same way. I’ve never loved America more than I do now.
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Bjork goes nuts on a reporter in 1996. Wow. (Via)
The New York Times’s Charles McGrath examines text messaging around the world. As I’ve mentioned before, I find texting to be an especially useful and enjoyable mode of communicating; as McGrath notes, the practice is huge in Asia, and I became enamored with texting last year in Taiwan.
My only gripe with the article is […]
I’m happy to see that some of my posts have elicited comments from a wide range of passionate folks.
First, I’ve been remiss in pointing out that my criticism of Friends of the Earth’s over-simplified and misleading Metro posters linking global warming to killer hurricanes prompted a response from a representative of FOE. I replied to […]