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Scenes from a University Van
From our road trip to Pattaya a couple weeks ago. If you love frogs, you probably shouldn’t read the latter half of this post, but I’m not hiding it in…
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F*ck Songkran
So we’re in the middle of the Songkran holiday period that marks the Thai New Year. The reason I feel so strongly about this holiday, which is also called the…
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Captain Ahab: The Man Who Brought Us Lizard Salad
Yesterday provided a chance encounter with a local character which has forever changed our culinary lives. WE HAVE EATEN LIZARD, SOME KIND OF IGUANA. Specifically, this kind of iguana, although…
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Isan News Update
It has been raining the past week, which is a rather curious development for this area this time of year. In fact, there was a pretty serious storm a couple…
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Our New Thai House Part 1 – Picking a Plot
I’ve put off posting proper photos of our new house since we decided to build it, that is, for the better part of a year. What can I say? We…
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good juju, bad juju, it’s all just plain old juju
Yes, sometime I will probably stop trying to write blues lyrics in the titles… but today is not the day to do so, because yesterday, I ran over a chameleon…
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Banana Moth
I have no idea what the real name of this moth is, and have no time to pore over moth photos for an ID, either. I found it stuck to…
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Last night a chili pepper saved my life
Me, the wife, the baby – we’ve all been extremely busy the whole time I haven’t been blogging. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had a gadzillion papers…
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git up a git git down 911 119 191 is a joke in yo town
It made so much sense when I found out in Japan that the number for the popo fire department was 119, because like so many other aspects of Japanese culture,…
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Climbing Motorcycle Show @ Red Cross Fair
What is the Red Cross Fair? Every year in February, for Chinese New Years, the downtown area of Mahasarakham (Maha Sarakham) around the clock tower is swarmed by vendors and…
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Upside down in the Third World…
…or is it the First World that’s fucked? First check out this article: The Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog: So Good It’s Illegal //////////////////////////////////////////////// Now, which of the following do you think…
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Thainglish Update – Bissin Thin Biscuits with Nature Identical Raspberry Flavoured Cream
They’re a mouthful.
