2005 Charlottesville Sprint Triathlon
I cannot brake, I cannot steer, trees a blur, road ending, I know what’s going to happen next. Pain. Agh! There it is, on my thigh, ass, back, I feel the impact of body to dirt, tree, rock. I know I am down. I can taste the earth, I can smell the damp wetness of leaves and decay.
Read MoreThe Perfect Gift: A Bulgari SD 38 SG
Father’s Day is just around the corner and I bet you’re still looking for that perfect gift for him. One that says, “Dad you rock” in a way that will stun his friends. Well look no longer as I now have the perfect last-minute super-bling for Pa that will have Mom shaking her head and his friends whistling in awe – a real Bugari watch for cheap.
Read MoreChill This Secret Service
Some days you have to stand up for what you belive in. And after my censorship in China, where my website is still banned, and the FTP blocking in Laos, I’m not about to watch it happen here. So this is my, albiet tiny, contribution.
Read MoreSurrealist Culture & Cuisine
Memorial Day weekend is the official start of summer, and what better way to celebrate than taking one of the $15 Chinatown buses to Philadelphia for two days of old-school culture and new-school cuisine. With a retrospective on Salvador Dali as the draw, the Philadelphia Museum of Art provided the cultural infusion I needed. It’s been too long since I checked out Dali’s masterful strokes.
Read MoreBye Bye Chinatown
Washington DC once had a thriving Chinatown, not NYC’s mind you, but still respectable. It was a decent Chinablock with maybe five or six square blocks of very Asian restaurants, stores, and activity centers, so Asian the police even had a Asian outreach office there, complete with Asian officers. Then Abe Polin built the MCI Center in the midst of Chinatown and the end came swift. With hordes of suburbanites headed to the Center’s shows, Chinatown was over-run by folks expecting General Tao’s Chicken, something you’d never find in a real Chinese restaurant.
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