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Pink Water Buffalo Photos!!
A few weeks ago, Nam wanted to buy some more maternity clothes so we got in the car and headed off to Non Kuan Chang (sp?), a nearby village with the best silk shop in the region. The shop is run by my coworker’s mother-in-law, with several looms and weaving machines on an elevated bamboo work area outside and an extension of their big house used to hold/display finished products. I took photos there the first time I visited Sarakham seven or eight years ago and need to do so again; today I’m not writing about silk though. Max had fallen asleep in the car on the way, and since…
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Tasty Media Links for 9/1
Ursula K. Le Guin reviews Margaret Atwood’s semi-sequel to Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood. Oryx and Crake was just some of the freshest writing I’d seen for quite some time and some scenes were kind of reminiscent of the Earthsea novels now that I think about it. But was it Science Fiction? Aside from Atwood’s protestations, I sure think it was – and it was SF of the best kind: The kind enjoyable by people who don’t read SF. ////////////////////////////// Roxanne Shante, the first really popular female rapper, gets a doctorate and gets Warner Music to pay for it. It’s not hard to see what they were…
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Mitsuoka 50 series vs Rollerninjas
Too batshit crazy (in a good way) for words. Link: Mitsuoka 50 series Bubu Shuttle
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Blog –> FB + Twitter Test
I’m experimenting with a combination of Twitterfeed and the Twitter app on Facebook. Feedalicious.
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Spondias mombin aka ma-kok (?????)
Somebody brought in a bag of these the other day and I’d never seen them before so I had somebody write down the name. If I’m summarizing correctly, this may be a kind of olive, or related to olives. What I know is that it was really bitter and sour, the taste of bitter fruits that make your mouth pucker or what the Japanese call shibui (astringent). That explains the bag of chili-laced sugar the ma-kok are sold with (although this also accompanies sweet fruits as well; pineapples, sour mango, various indigenous “apples,” etc.) I have to be careful to record all of the rare stuff I encounter here because…
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Pinky’s still alive
I found some snaps I took with my phone pretty soon after they arrived. Here’s one:
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Best Firefox Plugin, Ever
At least, that’s what the guy who sent it to me claims. Check it out: (thx hui)
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Bobby McFerrin Crowd Hacking with Pentatonic Scale Attack
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1:50 AM
I’m grading writing exams and listening to Houses of the Holy. Definitely my favorite Zepp. I tried grading earlier in the evening but Max would come and take my pen away every time. Eventually I grew tired of getting nothing done and crashed out on the couch. when I woke up it was dark throughout the house and the fan that Nam had thoughtfully pointed at me hadn’t kept the mosquitoes from biting the hell out of my legs. Once I got up for water I remembered the grading I’d been doing and now I sit here, scratching my legs and appreciating a quiet house (save for The Rain Song).…
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Five jive colors of haplessness (aka Maxie Brushing Chicks)
Luring them in. Brush! Brush! Brush! They got away! A few weeks ago, Max’s grandmother brought over these little guys from the night market in a neighboring town, Nong Vang. I wasn’t really keen on the idea of keeping them at first because I was afraid Max might kill them… He’s still too young to understand his strength or about hurting things. Sure enough, the couple weeks was filled with episodes of Max almost strangling the yellow one, Max stomping on the yellow one and hurting its leg, and as shown above, Max coercing them into various forms of Godzilla role play. As it turned out, however, the chickies were…
