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2/16/2012 3:15:18 AM
Regretfully, there are so few places these days where a simple day trip can lead to being violently torn apart and eaten. Pity, that...
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1/27/2012 4:29:13 AM
Hey, I’m down with Islam… great architecture, great poetry, great teachings, and breathtakingly beautiful women. What more can you ask of a world religion? Ever since I hitchhiked through North Africa I’ve been enamored of this truly great global religion. And in Southeast Asia I’ve been the grateful recipient of dependable Islamic warmth and hospitality. Not to mention their restaurants are sparkling clean.
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5/31/2010 4:05:17 PM
Were you born with a price tag on your head? Neither is anything else in this world. Not hotel rooms, not meals, not rentals of any sort. Not elephant rides, not scuba courses. Not even the price of fixing an election has a natural, fixed price tag on it! Welcome to tropical Asia, where everyone knows that but you.
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1/19/2012 3:26:50 AM
Bali! Possibly the most perfect island in the world! Should you go? When’s the best time for your visit?
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1/7/2012 4:19:29 AM
I was back in the United States recently, to attend my friend Steve Jobs funeral. “Steve”, I whispered over the headstone (which had iPhone4s and a camera function); “Now (in this twilight moment with the iWind whispering through the iPine trees and the last light of iDay fading, etc., etc. ) “It seems trivial that you stole all my ideas, and because of that the world doesn’t recognize I, Ken Silver, as the most creative genius of all time!”
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12/8/2011 2:36:38 AM
Well, maybe the sex isn’t a new development. I saw a dog mounting another dog once on the streets of Chiang Mai, so I guess there has always been sex in Thailand. But the possibility of encountering a hungry crocodile as you peacefully snorkel off of Phi Phi Island… well that is what Tourist Boards might call a “delightful new development (for the crocodile)" in Thai Tourism.
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11/29/2011 4:33:38 AM
And I’m not talking perfumed soaps and a handwritten note afterwards, either. I’m talking sexual violence with all the steady green lights and blinking cursors and 5GB Ram –Ram! Ram! Ram!- a young computer has to offer.
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11/10/2011 1:28:26 AM
It was a love affair for the ages. Born of the oldest of human desires, and the newest of inferior nuclear technology. The whole world now knows the story of the Rajah and the Hellcat. He, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune designing low sea walls around a Japanese nuclear reactor complex. ‘To merge the beauty of the sea with the glowing heart of the sun’ had read his sales pitch.
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11/1/2011 12:39:05 PM
Don’t read this! Thank you! It’s actually being written not by me –a God fearing Unitarian Universal Polar Bear Christian –but by the most disreputable man in Asia, the self-styled “Rajah”.
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10/22/2011 2:43:58 PM
As you may recall, I was wandering the dirt paths of coastal Moalboal, Philippines, in search of a snorkel tour boat. None to be found… And then… a welcome voice…
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