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2th
The seconth anniversary of the Lone Star bar in Shinsaibashi.
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Hi, Mom!
(Thx to XY)
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Video chat
Some people have recently asked why I don’t use a webcam and enable video messenging. Some possible replies: – Do you really want to see me picking my nose and flipping off the screen that badly? – I’m not that vain – I’m a leper – It feels too much like work (we have videoconferences all the time) – It would impede my “walk around the house naked” lifestyle – It makes me feel powerful to be able to watch you when you can’t watch me – What is this, 1998?
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Mexican Food in Bangkok
My research into this subject consists only of an hour-long web search. That is all I needed to determine that the first person to establish a Mexican restaurant in Bangkok with excellent food will probably become rich. I hope somebody steps up to this role soon, so I don’t have to do it myself (in general, I hate living in big cities). There are a few reviews of Mexican food in Bangkok, to be sure, but I really don’t trust the reviewers. Why? Well, for instance, anybody who even sets foot into a Mexican restaurant named “Charley Brown’s” is not qualified to judge, in my book. Similarly, a “fairly decent…
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Overkill?
I’ve been making a big deal about this light fishing cruise on a 70-foot boat in Thailand next month, but just how many feet of overkill does that amount to? After all, if we were in Brazil, all we would need is a skiff and a lamp….
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The Golden Age of Travel Posters
You should definitely go check out the whole collection at full size: FAR AND WIDE – The Golden Age of Travel Posters This is just the latest exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library Virtual Gallery. There’s a few real gems in the other sets as well:
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Random thoughts on movies/TV
– There is no such thing as a movie being better than the book. And the screen version of Where the the Wild Things Are directed by Spike Lee Jonze will probably prove this beyond a doubt (if it’s an exception to the rule, however, excellent!). – Hollywood is poison to successful Hong Kong talent. Case in point #1: Chow Yun Fat, #2 John Woo, #3 Michelle Yeoh (also read: The law of diminishing returns) – Amazingly, Japanese TV manages to suck even harder than American TV – Even more amazingly, Japanese MTV sucks even harder than American MTV (see also: Japanese rappers, J-Pop) – The only thing more annoying…
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Canon 30D
Someone sent this to me with the caption, “CANON 30D.” It is immediately apparent that I was wrong in recommending a Nikon to my little brother last week. Maybe they’ll still let you trade it in, Adam.
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Skype, Out
Will anyone stand up to the Chinese government? Skype caves in to Chinese censors I’m sick of those commie bastards dictating morally wrong terms of business to Western companies. And will said companies please grow some fucking balls already? Jeez. Hope you feel proud participating in the censorship of, say, the Dalai Lama… Well, you just wait. Karma’s a fucking bitch, you nutless cowards. The thing is, I’d have figured a righteous company like Skype would somehow act better than those pussies over at , say, Yahoo (oooops there goes my del.ico.us and flickr accounts)… Guess I’ll see you guys again when I need to ask someone what Beijing dick…
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Hustler
Check out this awesome photo gallery of pool hustlers. The real kind that is, not the kind with their own (delicious) spaghetti sauce charities, nor the kind that tote around e-meters and jump up and down on Oprah’s couch. For some reason, I now have a strong urge to dig out the New Jack City soundtrack. (via kottke)
