Travels
Today, a priest grabbed my hand and dragged me to a holy lake (where Ghandi's ashes was strewn). He sat me down, crushed petals in my palm, chanted lines for my father, fictitious dead mother, non-existent sister and wife and son, and stained my forehead with red dye followed by rice grains.
Travels
A woman combed her thigh length tresses on the flat roof of her house, while baboons clambered over her walls. Below, young men bicycled through the narrow warrens of streets and looked up just as she vanishes towards the shadows.
Travels
I'm with India. The cliches are visible and it's hella disorienting. Did I write 'hella'? I must be going crazy. No 'Delhi belly' yet, but viruses and nasty buggers are all around – infections galore. It's been four days since I&
Travels
Frankly, I've been to lots of 'poor countries' and while each situation demands a level of complexity that I can't give, how Egypt is doesn't excuse it's crappiness from my book because of it's poverty (see Asia).
Spirituality
You know what I get most angry about? When my anger is at peak? When I realize that the world has too much, way too much, hypocrisy and arrogance. Arrogance -- the ignorance brought on by ego. Hypocrisy – the failure of an arrogant ego. Both are rooted in an evil
Travels
6 or 7 Nubian men were dancing around a crackling radio. Another felucca moored next to ours, and a woman peeped her head out and darted back inside the cabin when she saw me and the other passengers on our boat. She was naked. A couple of Nubian men walked on the boat and then strolled back off.
Twentysomething
If I hear another "Hey Japan!" shouted at me I'm going to knock someone out. It's ok when a couple of people do it, but when kids on the streets start yelling "Hey Japan! Korea?" at me, and keep on shouting it at me when I say, "No, Vietnam" or "No, America" I'm really going to go crazy.
News & Politics
Ah, pandering to the lowest common denominator to your most rabid supporters. With no fear of opposing views, the Bush-Cheney axis of tragi-comic-politic can finally resort to their age old just 'cry wolf' and gay bashing tactics, with golden morsels like: "However they put it, the Democrat
Travels
The earthen homes squatted together like bubblewrap popping off the desert.. the rounded domes reminds me of Luke's farm in Star Wars (they're round to reflect the intense sunlight).
Travels
From Ink, my uber cool friend (click to see full image). See, I make fun of myself, too. Link.
Twentysomething
It's not that I care what you all do, it's just that I have to be subjected to walking retards dressed in oversized parkas and too short pants and well, where have all the girls gone?
Travels
Beyond the touts who pester you every three minutes for taxi rides and hotels and 'hey, you want papyrus shop? maybe later?' and camel rides and packaged tours — we got screwed by a tourist police officer! I'll repeat it. As tourists, we got screwed by tourist officers.