Travels

Fried Rice

Now that I've eaten through most of yuppienomad's cooking, it's time for me to fall back on feeding myself. So here's my recipe for... dum dum DUM! Fried Rice!  (copied in part from K-Dawg) Woa PAAA! (It's not the dish

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Short night

Went out to GC Pub for a couple of beers. Two was enough for me after I totally shanked the 8 ball and scratched -- once again.  A couple of local girls sweating out to the tune of the Black Eye Peas really wasn't my scene for tonight. Just a beer and maybe a smoke coulda dunnit.

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Lord of the flies

The rainy season is upon Hanoi and those pesky mosquitos are coming out of the woodwork.  I mean really coming out -- flying into your eyes and nose and mouth kinda coming out.

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Minutes til' Midnight

Seems like I might have to cut short the fairy tale and head back to the States. As the son of first generation immigrants, it's the cards I was born with, to provide in some small ways, financial stability for the folks.

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Weighty Nibblings

Hanoi is damp.  Damp with the smell of mildew on the streets and on your clothes.  Particularly in this changing of winter to spring.

Twentysomething

Gogogirl

Just want to give a shout to gogogirl's experimental writing journal. She has some interesting workshop stuff in there. GG is one of those people I wished I knew better ('wikb') in high school. Seems like in the past couple of years, a lot of wikb

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Inspiration

It's hard to hold onto the inspiration though. You have to will it, tease it to come out  — you have to grab hold of its throat and strangle it into submission, into something that is domesticated, something that you can draw out at will, something so natural that it ceases to become necessary.

Art

Review: The Aristocrats

Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) set out to prove that, like life, the heart of laughter lies in the journey and not in the punchline.  Featuring a veritable who's who of the comic world, the documentary explores the origins, interpretations, and evolution of one

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The Cows go Moo

In her wake is a kitchen in shambles. In three hours she made four dishes for refrigeration and bought supplies to stock Dick Cheney's hiding place. 

Twentysomething

Nutcracker

Sometimes life decides to kick you in the nuts when you're not looking.

News & Politics

Time Machine

Actually, this decision by the sovereign state of S. Dakota is a good thing.  Perhaps, more states will turn the clock back so their populace can once and for all define 'marriage'. Or ban stem cell research. Heck, they can even outlaw evolutionary biology for all I care.

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High Society

I walked passed a bia hoi (beer hall) establishment in an alleyway today.  Par for the course.  The place was dominated by men, drinking warm glasses of beer and nibbling salty snacks while their women went to work. Then it struck me.  Vietnamese people dress very formally. Whereas in the