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- What's in a name?
- October 25, 2008
- Your neighborhood bar is the place where people know your name; if we could just get them to remember the bar's name as well, we'd be onto something.
- Indglish
- January 7, 2008
- English as she is spoke and written, Indian-style
- Tea with the sadhu
- January 2, 2008
- A tea break with the residents of a Hanuman shrine in Khajuraho.
- A tale of two trucks
- October 11, 2007
- A short truck ride in the Fan Mountains.
- Strange days indeed
- October 11, 2007
- Only in Tajikistan can a ride in a shared taxi turn into an industrial spelunking expedition.
- The Gray Plague
- October 8, 2007
- The police in Dushanbe are everywhere ... and they have too much time on their hands.
- Photo Exhibition
- September 20, 2007
- Some photographs taken during a recent photography course.
- Eclipse
- March 3, 2007
- Some photographs of the March 3rd lunar eclipse.
- Confession
- February 8, 2007
- I am an unrepentant criminal. Here is my confession.
- Roller Derby
- October 14, 2006
- The Bronx Gridlock and the Queens of Pain meet in Manhattan, and I get to take pictures from the ringside.
- Lost in America
- April 20, 2006
- One thing I like about New York is the chance to see live music.
- Erawan
- March 22, 2006
- The Brahma statue at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine has been smashed by a mentally-ill man.
- Siem Reap
- January 26, 2006
- A fashion show in Siem Reap.
- Furthur (II)
- January 20, 2006
- Sissophon to Battambang: the odyssey continues.
- Furthur
- January 19, 2006
- A road trip from Phnom Penh to Sisophon.
- Mortality
- January 18, 2006
- How the other half dies.
- Sic transit
- December 20, 2005
- The first day of the New York transit strike wasn't so bad - for me at least.
- Potemkin East
- October 30, 2005
- Drug-crazed Hollywood film-makers build Berkeley on the Lower East Side, call it Greenwich Village.
- Back to Bangkok
- June 13, 2005
- Returning once again to Bangkok, via Tokyo.
- 24-hr party people
- May 15, 2005
- The first warm (Saturday) night in 2005, and the bands are on the march.
- Good Friday
- May 1, 2005
- Eastern Orthodox Good Friday service, at the Cathedral of Holy Virgin Protection, New York.
- Nuweiba
- October 8, 2004
- I was always afraid that someone would notice just how easily a terrorist attack could be carried out on the Sinai coast around Nuweiba. And someone did.
- Neither snow nor rain
- September 1, 2004
- Even though I work just a few blocks away, I can almost ignore the RNC. Others are not so lucky.
- Going by the Book
- July 6, 2004
- Seen from Hanoi, the planet doesn't look quite so Lonely after all.
- Farangs
- June 29, 2004
- You meet such fascinating people when you travel.
- Say 'No' to drugs
- June 10, 2004
- Under the influence of powerful drugs in Cambodia - caffeine, dramamine, fatigue and Reaganism.
- Visa Run
- June 2, 2004
- It's time to leave Thailand - and come back in with a new visa.
- Shrines
- May 30, 2004
- On Bangkok's roadside shrines, Hindu outposts in a Buddhist country
- Hi-So
- May 13, 2004
- In which we go to a fashionable party and have a surprising encounter on the way home.