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Carabao Bike & Death Merchant
Yesterday, on the way to check the progress of the new house we’re building, we came across a couple of awesome motorcycles, one right after the other. First up was…
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Thai Boxers in Japan
This article is interesting as hell because I’ve heard many, many times about how weak Thai boxers/kickboxers are used to prop up their Japanese counterparts, but never actually bothered to…
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Pink armbands for Thai cops
Over on AOL news: Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring Hello Kitty, the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of…
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fruit sacrilege
Thai farmers dumped a ton of mangosteens on the street in front of city hall to protest the low selling price. I’m pretty sure all the government workers rushed out…
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Precursor to official Ubon Candle Festival post
I don’t have time to go sift through all the photos I took at the candle festival we saw in Ubon Ratchathani last weekend, but I wanted to post a…
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On the Road 2007 (Part 6) – The Animatronic Chicken Roasters of Rayong, Thailand
On a previous trip to Thailand, I wrote about the most delicious roast chicken I have ever eaten. I have many special memories of Rayong, and the awesome roast chicken…
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Riot in Bangkok
The situation described in this article is rapidly developing into a riot on live television. It looks like the anti-coup protesters have erected some sort of bastion in the street…
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I traded my 100Mbps FTTH for mangosteens and monkeys…
…And I think I made the right decision. This article by Robert Cringely hits home, though. My theoretical download speed is now 1/50 of what it was last year in…
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On the Road 2007 (Part 5) – Tamnanpar
After visiting Koh Chang, Nam and I headed back toward familiar territory: The miles-long stretch of beach at Rayong. We booked into the same hotel we had stayed at two…
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Speaking of carp…
Over at the Fish & Fly site: Thai guide in record carp catch There’s a lot of haters saying it doesn’t mean much since it was caught in a stocked…
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Iguana skillet
I woke up today and stretched out on my balcony like I do every morning. The hybrid eucalyptus/native vegetation forest has grown to twice its height since I arrived here…
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Escaping the Bangkok Hilton
This is not the Hilton of which I speak, this is. Richard Barrow has scored an exclusive interview with the author of Escape, “the true story of the only Westerner…
