I did not expect The Dead Weather’s Brooklyn show to freeze Ticketmaster….that sucked.  Anyone have extras?

Public message board - Auckland, New Zealand (i particularly like the daytime specification)

Public message board - Auckland, New Zealand (i particularly like the daytime specification)

Promise and Perils of Altruism on the Internet

A few years ago, the artist Wafaa Bilal decided to see how many people, given the chance, would shoot him.  He rigged a paintball gun and web camera so that people could log on to his website, chat with him online, and—if they wished to—aim and fire at Bilal from anywhere in the world. He then shut himself and the whirring, rotating gun in a room for 30 days.  Over the course of the month, people from around the world began shooting, and then kept on shooting, with increasing enthusiasm as time went on.  By the experiment’s end, Bilal had been shot at 60,000 times…..

……follow the link to the rest.  The author, Jamil Zaki, is a friend of mine.  If you enjoy the article, vote for it, and help him secure additional grants to research and write.

loudersoft: RIP Jerry Fuchs, drummer for !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Maserati, and The Juan MacLean.  Please don’t think it cheesy when I say that my thoughts & prayers go out to his family and many, many friends today at this absolutely tragic loss. Jerry was without a doubt one of the best drummers I have ever seen perform.  As performing drummers go, I can think of only a handful I have ever seen who were even close.  Jerry’s death is completely devastating. The Juan MacLean This is so sad, he really was a captivating drummer who I saw play with with both !!! and J.M.  I feel for his family, his friends, and the Brooklyn music world in which Jerry played a large part.  Here’s a link to the story, shitty Williamsburg elevators….

loudersoft:

RIP Jerry Fuchs, drummer for !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Maserati, and The Juan MacLean.  Please don’t think it cheesy when I say that my thoughts & prayers go out to his family and many, many friends today at this absolutely tragic loss.

Jerry was without a doubt one of the best drummers I have ever seen perform.  As performing drummers go, I can think of only a handful I have ever seen who were even close.  Jerry’s death is completely devastating. The Juan MacLean

This is so sad, he really was a captivating drummer who I saw play with with both !!! and J.M.  I feel for his family, his friends, and the Brooklyn music world in which Jerry played a large part.  Here’s a link to the story, shitty Williamsburg elevators….

Of all my pics in Thailand, I got to lead with this one. Tiger Kingdom is about 15 miles north of Chaing Mai, a major city in northern Thailand.  There is ample debate among the western crowd as to whether these tigers are hopped up on xanax, but in the end, I must admit that I put the animal morality questions on the backburner for a chance to hug and hang with a few tigers.  Heaven!

Of all my pics in Thailand, I got to lead with this one.

Tiger Kingdom is about 15 miles north of Chaing Mai, a major city in northern Thailand.  There is ample debate among the western crowd as to whether these tigers are hopped up on xanax, but in the end, I must admit that I put the animal morality questions on the backburner for a chance to hug and hang with a few tigers.  Heaven!

and it comes to an end.....

in the coming days, once I return to NYC and back to suburban New Jersey to look for work and get responsible I will surely inundate this page with all of the meandering thoughts I have as I sit here in Saigon on day 137 of 139.  Presently the whole idea of looking back at my travels, the experiences, the people, its hard not to romanticize the journey.  If I did not do it, I knew I’d regret it.  And now that I’ve done it, I regret nothing and am proud of myself and happy to return to whatever life will bring me in the States. 

All I can say for sure at this time is that the hardest decision I had to make the past five months was the decision to put life on hold and get the fuck out on the road.  Once your life consists of a bag on your back and a ‘choose your own adventure’ situation every morning, its all very simple. 

One last night in Saigon begins now.  See all you NYCers soon!

The Gibbon Experience

I’ve tried to summarize over at Travellerspoint the experience I had last week living in treehouses in the northern Laos jungle.  Perhaps the highlight of my trip so far.  I won’t be able to sift through the pics and videos until I get home but for now, I’ll steal this guys youtube video, it does a good job of showing the zip lines.  Oh and here is a pic of the tree house….its been upgraded slightly but you can get the jist.

the good and the bad on rats in Hanoi

There are none on the streets. But I have inferred that extermination comes in the form of fine cuisine.

Hanoi, Vietnam

Well I have only been here for 10 hours, but so far, I love this city.

I just saw a guy’s leg get broken in a Muay Thai Boxing match.  Ringside.  With people waving around money and gambling, ala Bloodsport.  If you dont know what Muay Thai Boxing is check this.

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