Monthly Archives: July 2011

Facundo Cabral RIP

July 9, 2011 – 4:55 pm

This Argentinean peace troubadour was assassinated after a concert in Quetzaltenango on an empty road to the airport. The intended target was the promoter according to the Guatemalan police. The blind singer was hit eight times in the ambush. A man of peace. “I am not from here. I am not from anywhere.”

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Farang / Thai Girl Relationships

July 9, 2011 – 12:12 pm

How true. How true. Ching Ching. I love grafts.

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Paradise for Cannibals

July 8, 2011 – 9:33 pm

The first thing most foreigners learn in another language is ‘carry this’, the second is ‘carry me’. What about that fat woman’s little feet? Bet them toes made good eating back in the old cannibal days. Finger-licking good.

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Spam Yummy

July 8, 2011 – 9:28 pm

Hormel Foods Corporation is enjoying an upsurge in sales of SPAM, that timeless mystery meat consisting of chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite. Tough times are breeding new Spam fans, although nowhere is Spam deemed more eatable than Hawaii and the South Pacific, where even McDonald’s offer […]

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Fort Greene Haiku Times Two

July 7, 2011 – 3:27 pm

The crackle of Rip Van Winkle thunder then a strobe of flash lightning. White rain blurring the buildings. Rumble overhead. Storm passing eastward. The foto is the view from my window. That is not a haiku And neither are the first two Haikus consist of two or more separate images. I think I achieved that. […]

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