Art

Starstruck (sort of)

Now, you may not be able to pick Johnny out of an Asian crowd – and I couldn't either until I remembered that I saw this horrendous movie with my Dad before I left for Asia. 

Art

Review: Carlito's Way

Carlito's Way is a de Palma-Pacino dessert to their earlier flick, that Pimp Your House must-have DVD Scarface.

Art

Review: The Mystic Masseur

There is a childlike honesty to Ganesh, a gift for perceiving truth in men but not in himself. Naipaul gives him a cast of characters that ranges from the wily to the vain to the boorish.

Tech & Etc

HDR

HDR really is the next step in photography. It's the best way to replicate exactly what the human eye can do. There's an interesting article about it here.  Wish I can afford a DSLR to do all the crazy stuff I want.  Thanks to Joe for

Travels

Driving Through

Vietnam sure loves its motorbikes.  Everything is drive through.  Want food? Park your bike next to the curb and wait for a street vendor to come over.

Travels

When in doubt

I saw this poster near my neighborhood.  It's a UN posting against the avian flu.  Basically, when in doubt, just boil the hell out of your poultry. Seems like the Vietnamese is not taking this soon-to-be epidemic that seriously.  Chickens still squawk in the marketplace, and plenty of

Travels

Not in Season

Know your enemy, says Sun Tzu, and in a Vietnamese market, it's a battleground where the test of wills, craftiness, and determination come into play.  I have yet to know my enemy.

News & Politics

Distressed

I don't really have anything to add to Richard Cohen's 'How's This for Satire?' article from the Washington Post.  Blurb below, but the entire article is encapsulates my thoughts on Washingtonian politics. This country has a bunch of fools for leaders. Almost

Art

Cos' it's all right

The sun is out. I have $3 in my pocket. The sun is out. There's more to this than making it right.  The sun is out.  I'll make it out of this life. And can't you feel it, cause the sun is out.  And

News & Politics

Ornery Bush

President tells advisors, "I don't want to deal".  A conservative magazine has put out an article that states: Iraq - President Bush has decided to stay out of the lion's share of decisions made by his administration. Sources close to the administration said that

Art

Google is da debil

And then, like a crazed monkey bouncing against its cage, thoughts that have no place in the here (the now) / the eternity of the present, those superfluous thoughts turn into unessential details

News & Politics

RIP Tom Fox

According to the NY Times, Tom Fox, part of Christian Peacemaker Team, was found with a gunshot wound to the head.  He died in Iraq.  He was in Iraq "investigating allegations that American and Iraqi forces were abusing Iraqi detainees, and was also working for an end to the