It’s very rare that people pay me for my predictions (even today few people are willing to have their ears licked by snakes) but if someone were to ask me how to find a peaceful place on earth amongst the teeming masses of humanity, I’d give them a simple metric. Find a place where people ride unicycles. The other day here in Unicorn City, where … Continue reading A Land Where Unicycles Bloom
As I just wrote about, every morning there’s like a little jukebox that fires off in my head (which I suspect is related somewhat to la main étrangère). Usually the jukebox plays more recent stuff but today it came up with a real old one from the late 1970’s: Thanks to the magic of YouTube and other websites, nearly everything that has ever been broadcast … Continue reading The people that you meet each day
Today I had a very interesting conversation with a young man from the nation of Bangladesh, which reminded me of a post I wrote recently (there’s an episode filmed in Dakka), which reminded me of another post I wrote a long time ago, which reminded me of several conversations I had recently with some veteran global travelers (some of whom make Magellan look like a … Continue reading The Secret to Happiness
Prior to 2012, it had been a few years since I owned a television. I still rarely watch it but it has one feature that doesn’t really exist when all of your video content comes from the internet – flipping channels. This is a term that came from an older generation of televisions, which perhaps some of you once watched (as did I) when you … Continue reading Flipping Channels
I am seriously thinking about buying one of those hidden video cameras, the kind that you wear like sunglasses or record through a pinhole in a hat or something. It’s not because I’m doing some undercover reporting or anything like that – it’s just because my life is so damn interesting. Truly, it is. Some of it is obvious, like dancing in a club or … Continue reading Oppa Clujnam Style
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