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On the Road 2007 (Part 4) – Overloaded
After visiting Koh Chang, we took the ferry back to the mainland. Our car had travelled a thousand kilometers over hills and beaches and muddy back roads, and showed every bit of it: wash me In Chantaburi, I spotted the coolest lamp posts I’ve ever seen: I want these in front of my house. …and also some entertaining signage: “The school at work place” I thought this sign at a highway rest stop was pretty funny (but Nam called me a dumbass): – – |||||||||||||||||||||||| – O V E R L O A D E D – |||||||||||||||||||||||| The highways on the road home were filled with trucks carrying fruit…
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There was a murder
…just down the road today, at a student’s dorm just outside our housing tract. Nam saw the crowd of people who had gathered to watch when she came home, so we walked down the street to ask what was up. Some guy supposedly shot his girlfriend for cheating on him. Dumbass. Puppy love is some stupid shit to shoot someone over. Gun violence out here in rural Thailand is more prevalent than I thought it would be what with the strict gun laws and the whole Land of Smiles/mai pen rai thing. Shit, people are people though, right? People tell me it’s much more likely for a Thai person to…
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Thailand’s Ban on YouTube – Updated
This is what my previous post (with embedded video) looks like when viewed from Thailand: click to see full size Awesome logo – I’m being watched by the Man!
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John Butler Trio – Ocean
I haven’t posted a guitar vid for a long time, so:
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Pot
Highlight of my weekend: Being told “wow, you really live out in the country” by a visitor from Wisconsin whose biggest complaint seems to be the complete lack of cheese wheels here. ||||||||| A close second: kidsincorporated.us (I don’t remember what channel we got Kids Incorporated on at home but that goddamn song is stuck in my head for another twenty five years now for sure)
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Buddha Factory
Taken in Kosum Phisai, Thailand. Hitherto known only for its monkey reserve and a delicious Thai oden-like dish (Thai: “yentafo”) Kosum Phisai may be put on the map by the multitude of statue/buddha image workshops dotting the roadside. The monkey reserve is supposedly one of the best in the country, and is a promising recruiting ground for my future monkey army.
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Why do Thais use a fork and spoon for eating?
My apologies to Kevin for using his post here. It’s just too damn interesting to let slip by for a chowhound like me. I intend to use this post as the start of a series on the history of the spoon and fork in Thailand. Kevin’s original post is reproduced below: Thailand and the fork I normally think of the fork as a Western implement, but after complaining about the lack of chopsticks at a Thai resto I visited a few days back, commenters have been writing in to say that both Thai restaurants and Thais in Thailand use forks when eating. My brain refuses to accept this, so I…
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USB sushi, eclipsed
Humping Dog – “USB Meets Love” Via g-man, who says, “Yo, the Japanese have too much time on their hands to be inventing shit like this…”
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Thai monks do not wear underwear
Just following up on a question asked in this comment thread. BTW, the monk I asked to prove it was hung like a goddamn elephant.
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Carabao (Rural Thai Graffiti)
The Thai rock band Carabao is the Rolling Stones.of Asia. This photo was taken at a workshop where they cast bronze Buddha images. The wooden basket on the floor is actually a cage for keeping chickens in – usually fighting chickens, because normal chickens are just let free to roam and forage and cross roads or whatever.
