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Thai-specific perk
This week there are girls from the Science Faculty coming around to our offices every afternoon to practice foot massage on anyone willing… and who am I to deny their further education? More than a few people took pictures of both my feet being massaged at the same time as I dozed off on the sofa in the teacher’s room diligently filled out the supplied grading sheets.
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Tribute to Max’s “Mickey Mouse & Tiger” Jam
Taro’s tribute, in a Bangkok hotel room: Here’s the original:
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Quick reading 8/27/2011
Questlove and Seal Team Six Update: Have they already remade Back to the Future?
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Dogs and Cars
The story of restoring my beloved Kujira Crown is long and unimportant. The sad fact is that the shop promised to be done in a month and a half and it’s been four and a half months with it still not quite done. On the upside, I won’t feel bad for getting it done so cheaply because promises are being made and broken on a weekly basis. I’m a simple guy. Don’t waste my time and you will be duly compensated. Fuck with me and I’ll make you suffer… Is this somehow on me? Did I ask for too much? No. The owner of the shop has some family issues…
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First Day of School
This is from a few months ago, but I forgot to post it until now. Don’t worry, the little kids at Max’s school aren’t self conscious enough to care about having to wear fake tartan skirts/shorts. Max’s uniform schedule: Mon to Wed: Red tartans Thursday: Poorly sized yellow athletic outfit Friday: Blue tartans Mina’s nursery school has no uniforms, and sometimes she chooses what she wants to wear by herself.
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Perfect Chicken Pot Pie
As perfect as it gets for NE Thailand, at least: It only tasted about half as good as it looked, which was still pretty good. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the plate was flipped around the wrong way until after I took the photo. On the positive side, I’m pretty happy with the quality of the camera on my Desire HD. It pretty much replaces a pocket camera, not that I ever carried one regularly.
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Wifred is currently the best show on television
And goddamn, Mary Steenburgen is just… timeless.
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Old photos of HB
This photo gallery of Huntington Beach from the 1920’s shows just how many derricks there used to be on and near the beach. I had no idea how many had been taken down over the years, but I suspect the huge and oily wooden beams we used in front of our HB house as planter sidings 30 years ago came from that infrastructure. I also found another related image through Google that I can’t find the source for:
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Dog Show at Central Plaza, Khon Kaen
And when they say, “show,” it’s like a spectacle for people who have never seen dogs before and might mistake them for food or something. The only other time I’ve heard of dogs displayed in a cage like this was at Nazo no Paradise (raccoon boner heaven), when they advertised a new “zoo” about 20 years ago and a few people, including my ex-coworker took their kids up to see it… only to find a roped off area next to the muddy parking lot adorned with cages labeled, respectively, “monkey,” “dog,” and “cat.”
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This guy is HUNGRY.
…And his stage is the fucking GAIA! (via my pal Ton on FB)
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