C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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Chillin'

RIP Harry Harrison

The Stainless Steel Rat series is one of my all-time favorites. Also, he inspired me to learn a bit of Esperanto when I was quite young. I did a mail-in…

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August 16, 2012
Chillin'

Swamped

Just a quick heads up – I’ve been on various missions and adventures (aka school seminars) the past week and didn’t have net access. Now I’m back and have no…

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August 23, 2007
Society & Culture

“Right now,” she told me, “right now is fine.”

There’s a memorable profile on Karl Taro Greenfeld, written by the man himself, over at Time Asia: Tokyo Popped His writing, as always, is vivid and enjoyable. Sometimes I suspect…

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July 8, 2004
  • Photos,  Yoda the Kitten

    Pickle is gone.

    December 7, 2025 /

    My cat died today. Sad. She had FIV from getting into fights with neighborhood cats and her health was in decline. There were a lot of trips to the vet over the past year. She became lethargic and incontinent for the last few months and we put her in a cage outside with a litterbox (which she had never seen before but instantly took to) at night. We fed her rich foods she wasn’t used to having like mackerel and chicken liver to supplement her normal meals. Basically, we tried to make her life very nice, because her mouser days were kind of over (although I found the remains of…

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    There are two main objects in this photo

    December 6, 2025 /

    They are commonly carried by university students/teachers. If you can identify them both, you are hardcore Thai.

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Exploits,  Photos

    Edward

    December 1, 2025 /

    Edward is one of the two turtles I saved from the road this year. He was crossing from a pond toward Wang Yao Market on the shortcut from Your Place Hotel to Makro. I kept him in a box for an hour until I could release him.

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  • Exploits,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Phuket sky

    December 1, 2025 /

    We were waiting for our friends to come hiking back up the steep hill at sunset when the sky exploded. Southern Thailand hits different.

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  • Food,  Photos

    eryngii father and son

    December 1, 2025 /

    aka king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, eryngi, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes*, trumpet royale, aliʻi oyster *According to wikipedia, this is misleading nomenclature because boletus (which has pores) and eryngii (which has gills) are of different orders. All I know is that eryngii is delicious and it’s very hard to cook wrong.

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  • Exploits,  Videos

    the ballad of pokey pokey dude

    November 24, 2025 /

    I swear that I’d posted this before, but I guess not.

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Photos

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    @Nam’s mom’s house

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  • Web

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    November 9, 2025 /

    Can’t believe I missed this update 11 years ago: The Return To Finding Out Ice Cube’s Good Day The original post blew up the internet a couple years before that. I found my link to it searching for an old post. A big problem with blogging for so long is that most links and video embeds end up broken… Which was a selling point for social media back in the day (your memories are safe with us!), but of course, even Facebook has started deleting live videos this year after realizing storing that shit costs money.

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    Just a cool shot from the driver’s seat. From a few months back.

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    November 9, 2025 /

    Pickle has a long history of posing in bowl-shaped objects. This one is a planter, which has a serious crack in its side in this photo, and that broke in half when I brushed against it with my Honda Wave’s tire shortly after. This other one is a sink we bought at Chatuchak and brought back in the trunk of our Cefiro long ago. Her family has a proud history of chilling in bowls – here is her mom or sister (we can’t remember which), nine years ago, also in a planter.

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