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Night Out 1 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
I spend the week in solitude, and after work, I come home to my little apartment, to eat dinner alone in front of my computer screen, to read a book on my balcony, my place marked with a Burmese 50 ky...
On Windows 16 Jul 2013 | 07:16 pm
It's 10:30 AM on a Sunday, and I look out from the window of my 8th floor apartment-- an elderly woman in a housecoat tends to the birds-of-paradise in her garden, a procession of Filipinos and Vietna...
The Americans 10 Jun 2013 | 07:51 pm
I recently said a goodbye to my friends outside a little bar on Thanon Rangnam in North Central Bangkok. I'd seen them off before, on 2nd Avenue in Seattle, before they moved to Southeast Asia, on a r...
The Tea That Strikes the Dust, Part 2 14 May 2013 | 07:05 pm
As we traipsed across Myanmar, we entered into another era of travel, one before ATMs and the Internet. The unpaved roads that criss-cross the country go over remote brooks, where the traffic is slowe...
The Tea That Strikes the Dust, Part 1 6 May 2013 | 10:13 pm
This is how it went every morning. In little shops, selling samosas and noodles and instant coffee, the waiters, often no more than ten years old, went through the same ritual. A few drops of green te...
The Rooms of My Life 9 Apr 2013 | 06:27 pm
It's one of those nights when I can't fall asleep, which occur with a dismal regularity these days. I turn a light on and think maybe I should try to read myself to sleep. But somehow I can't. I pick...
The Idea of East 11 Mar 2013 | 05:21 pm
The idea strikes me at odd moments. It hits me now, as a pale shaft of morning light casts across the floor, to an old wooden double door with an unpainted latch leading to a crawlspace in a tiny Musl...
The Weight of Signs 26 Feb 2013 | 06:54 pm
On hungover Sunday mornings, I've taken to going on long walks through the shopping malls of Bangkok. One can find secret passageways, down long, white hallways, across hot asphalt alleyways, between ...
The Ruins of the Contemporary World 12 Feb 2013 | 06:17 pm
At least a couple times a week, I find myself on the highway that extends north from the Din Daeng area of Bangkok towards Don Mueang Airport, through a set of dismal, sprawling nowhere suburbs, past ...
The Museum of Inverse Reality 24 Jan 2013 | 06:26 pm
Every day we walk through the same spaces. We move from the bedroom into the living room, in and out of the front door. There is the same train to work, the same train home. Objects are rearranged, th...
