Welcome Year of the Tiger
February 16, 2010
The second visit to Hong Kong beats the first in spades, because instead of taking the tours and navigating the downtown financial district on foot, ... [read more]
So Long Singapore
February 15, 2010
We’re at the airport ... way too early, having followed instructions from Jet Star for passengers with an extra bag to check. It turns out ... [read more]
Ashore in Singapore
February 13, 2010
Singapore. What a welcome sight after Saigon and Bangkok, packed with cars and endless hordes of people reaching for the cash. By contrast this city ... [read more]
Super Bowl Monday
February 8, 2010
It’s Super Bowl Monday on the South China Sea, off the coast of Thailand. I woke up at seven and stumbled to the Magellan Lounge, ... [read more]
Cruising with Seabourn
February 2, 2010
We came aboard the Seabourn Pride and were immediately surrounded by an attending staff, something I’m not used to but could probably learn to like. ... [read more]
Borderline
January 29, 2010
When I wake up at three or four in the morning in a hotel room there’s not a hell of a lot to do except ... [read more]
Pissing With Style
December 1, 2009
Quentin Crisp wrote that when Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were in Rome, the public lavatories had no top on them, and the people were ... [read more]
Where Airplanes go to Die
November 17, 2009
I got back to Prescott yesterday afternoon, after a couple of weeks away. I left on Sunday about noon and drove to Mohave, where I ... [read more]
Never trust a religious psychiatrist
November 6, 2009
The shooter was first dead and then he was alive and stable. There were three shooters and then there was one. The picture gradually clarified ... [read more]
Statins and Seizure
October 12, 2009
A couple of days ago I received this letter, and with the permission of the person who sent it to me am posting it so ... [read more]
