So I’ve been a little slack on the writing lately as I get used to being back in San Diego. I’ve been working every day since I’ve gotten back which I’m sure that American Express is happy to hear about.
Two quick updates. First, thanks to the fine folks at A List Apart I added some [...]

Discussed: Root Beer Floats, David Beckham, Mambo Number 9, Foot Binding, Modern Man’s Hustle, Maoists Insurgencies, Sex in Singapore, “How much is that girl?”, E.T.
Note: this post is a sequel to this one.

So the next morning I wake up early to catch my bus to Melaka – a once Portuguese, then Dutch, then British, then [...]

Architects have such a big impact on our lives. I can easily feel my mood change from leaving a big ugly concrete block of UV lighting to a more aesthetic building filled with natural light and flowing shapes.

I just knew I wouldn’t be able to trust Moreno and his Napoleonic dilly-dallying, but rest assured, El Oso is back and better than ever. Such a breach of confidence will never take place on this blog again. Moreno has been fully reprimanded and now walks along Brooklyn’s lonely streets with his tail tucked between [...]

For such a hyper-capitalistic city as Kuala Lumpur, I was pleasantly surprised yesterday afternoon by the lack of advertisements in their subway. (It’s actually an above-ground ‘light-rail-train.’) In fact, rather than the usual Coke or cell phone provider posters, each car has four poems to read while waiting for your stop. Avoiding politics - or [...]

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:

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 [...]

More photos are up in the photography section including this one of Bobby’s unfortunate motor bike road rash: