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Shawn Blake, Facial Queen

I just had my first facial, and boy am I a convert! Ladies and gentlemen, meet Shawn Blake, aesthetician extraordinaire!

Charlatans in Baja

Charlatans are selling "cures" for COVID-19. Maybe now we can have an honest conversation about alternative medicine.

Moving to Mexico

By |November 11th, 2018|

I started this blog to chronicle my first opportunity to re-visit three of my former expat homes (Laos, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Ghana, Liberia, Zaire, France, England). Life got in the way after I returned to America, but this seems like as good a time as any to re-start. Grab your passport and join the party!

Thép Thavonsouk

By |February 15th, 2018|

Thép Thavonsouk’s work takes me home to Laos: its serene and gentle surroundings, saffron-robed monks, and delicious, warm rain. M Thavonsouk was born in Vientiane and educated at the Lycée de Vientiane. He was the first Fulbright Scholar from Laos, and he studied at St. Lawrence University in New York State.

Rabies

By |October 21st, 2017|

As an adult, I can go anywhere and eat anything without getting sick. This stems, I believe, from the remarkable immune system I picked up along my travels. Granted, the State Department made damned sure we were immunised against absolutely [...]

Leaked NRA memo: boilerplate mass-shooting press response

By |February 26th, 2016|

Sources at Kaffeeklatsch News(ish) have today obtained a copy of a memo circulating from the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to conservative news sources. In the aftermath of the United States' most recent mass shooting, the NRA sought to remind these news sources of their prime directive of obfuscation. Below is the text of the original memo, dated July 23, 1998, and updated in January 2014.

Kip Tips

By |March 15th, 2015|

If you’re traveling to Laos, leave your wallet at home. No, not your cash. Just the wallet. My woefully inadequate wallet Because it’s not going to fit your cash. Piles o' Kip A large sunglasses case, [...]

Getting there

By |January 12th, 2015|

I just arrived in Taipei, my transit point for the first leg. Tomorrow morning (at ohhhhh, dark-thirty), I fly to Manila to visit friends. China Airlines, LAX to Taipei Pleasantly, China Airlines did not live up to the negative comments on the [...]

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Rabies

By |October 21st, 2017|Travel|

As an adult, I can go anywhere and eat anything without getting sick. This stems, I believe, from the remarkable immune system I picked up along my travels. Granted, the State Department made damned sure we were immunised against absolutely [...]

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Leaked NRA memo: boilerplate mass-shooting press response

By |February 26th, 2016|Odds and Sods|

Sources at Kaffeeklatsch News(ish) have today obtained a copy of a memo circulating from the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to conservative news sources. In the aftermath of the United States' most recent mass shooting, the NRA sought to remind these news sources of their prime directive of obfuscation. Below is the text of the original memo, dated July 23, 1998, and updated in January 2014.

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