Monthly Archives: May 2009

Thai Jealousy

May 13, 2009 – 10:59 pm

I’m an old man. My body, not my heart or mind. At 56 I’m well past my mind, so I had to laugh when my Thai girlfriend told me on the phone that she was very jealous or ‘huung’ that I was in Russia. “Whatever for?” I had been faithful for my extended absence. “Russian […]

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My Country Of Where the Heck

May 13, 2009 – 10:48 pm

Russia is the country with the world’s largest land mass. Canada is second, but most American would be hard pressed to locate either on a map judging from a recent BBC interview asking Americans very simple questions like ‘name a country beginning with U’ or ‘how many sides to a triangle’. Granted the vignette was […]

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Drunk in Moscow, Not Idaho

May 12, 2009 – 7:20 pm

I’ve been in Moscow airport three times in the three days as I bounced around the ex-USSR on a risk assessment tour for my friend, Johnny Zombie. All legit. I was traveling from Malaysia to Paris on Aeroflot. Kuala Lumpur-Karachi-Dubai-Moscow-Paris. The flight to Moscow took about 24 hours. None of them comfortable. I disembarked at […]

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Moscow Taxi Touts

May 12, 2009 – 7:00 pm

New York newspapers used to report about naive visitors paying excessive fares into Manhattan. The record was set by a Japanese tourist. $2500 and the driver dropped him Harlem when he wouldn’t cough up another $500. Things have improved at JFK, however the age-old practice of soaking the uninformed has a global reach. This evening […]

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From Kiev with Love

May 12, 2009 – 3:50 am

The Kiev Restaurant opened in the late-70s. 24 hours. We went there after CBGBs, Max’s, and the Mudd Club. Bacon and eggs as the dawn broke the morn. It was a scene. I had a fight over a tape recorder with Samo and discussed a photo-roman with Klaus Nomi. They went from obscurity to fame. […]

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