“So Ronald Reagan is finally gone and I’m trying to figure out how he turned into Lady Di. Even the NPR coverage is a nauseating pile of collective amnesia.”
Couldn’t have been better said Prentiss.

I’ve been reading quite a bit on this trip, trying to stack my list for the 50 Books in a Year Challenge. I’m still a few behing blogmate Karen but watch out Karen -I’m on your heels.
You can see the books I’ve been reading and some brief remarks by pressing “Media” on the side bar.
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I have long been interested in how remittances effect both sending and receiving communites of migrant workers. The amount of money sent to the developing world by immigrants (nearly 10 billion dollars each to Mexico, India, and the Philippines) has received scant attention despite its potential in development as well as its need for reform.
So [...]

It’s not so often that I find myself in agreement with NY Times Op-Ed writer Thomas Friedman and his heavily biased writings about globalization, but he couldn’t have said it better about the meaning behind last month’s Indian Elections:

I don’t know where I am. I mean … I do … I’m at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf inside of a mall. I’m drinking a double Americano with that vanilla powder stuff I like so much. But I don’t know if the world still exists. Could be that it blew up. I think [...]

If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then this is my thousand on Koh Pha Ngan’s famous full moon party:

It seems that I have started a small avalance of toilet themed posts with my recent post about shitting in Thailand. First Elena reflects and then Woojay adds his own insightful commentary which in turn inspires this on the Turkish toilet. The climax was this very offensive picture which was emailed to Woojay in response [...]

So happy to hear that Moreno has landed safely and softly in Brooktown. And can you believe it - he already found a good spot to practice his favorite past time: throwing granite at unsuspecting hipsters.
I myself have landed safely and softly in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia after a 22 hour epic journey from Koh Pha [...]

Almost every traveler through the deveoping world spends a disprortionate amount of money on some special convienence or vice. For most it is alchohol and cigarettes. Here in Thailand, for example, a good meal should cost you somewhere between fifty cents and a dollar. Accomodation runs about a dollar or two a night. (I am [...]

There I was, sitting on the beach, wondering where my life might take me next? The waves of Thailand crash over my body as i awake, struggling, only to wonder where bobby and the others were….wait a minute, thats Oso’s life, not mine!
There I was, sitting on Rajeev’s computer in Brooklyn, typing up my [...]