Last night I met up with Pon at the club of her choice, and considering she knew the reasons i was bringing her out (mainly to score a trick, but there was something mentioned about martinis in there) her choice of siem reap's only gay bar makes me think she's not quite as business-savvy as i once suspected. I wish i could say there was something ( Read more... )

I realized last night that in the week i've spent at angkor, i haven't taken very many photos of the place... the initial photo-whoredom of the first day, crossing over the causeway for the first time with a whole world of ancientness rising up all around in stone and me going 'click-click-click' turning every corner... well all that soon devolved ( Read more... )

Before i came to cambodia i heard nothing but horror stories about the difficulties of travel here: complaints of neverending bus or moto journeys on horrible roads, nonstop scams and conmen and ripoffs, intense heat and humidity, and those annoyingly persistent crap vendors who will stop at nothing (NOTHING!) to sell you a drum or bracelet or ( Read more... )

For the past 2 weeks i've been living in a complete blur of shantytowns, ruins, jungle, waterfalls, parasites... but most of all, the roadside smiles i see whizzing by on a motorbike. One of the reasons i came to southeast asia was (there used to be more irony in this) to dive into anything but western culture, a project i thought was impossible ( Read more... )

I've been taking little dips in the mekong, hoping to god that all those frilly environmental protection measures dedicated to saving it are already being enforced. I'm pretty sure someone's cheating (CHINA!), but so far there have been no mysterious rashes and no bilarzia scares. I've been in fairly close proximity to the river for about 2 weeks ( Read more... )

Sometimes i amble around relics of the stone age.


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Almahy and i now have an agreement to live our lives however we wish until something happens between us... which is not a very promising sign. He's technically still in the service of the military and will be until september, but i know how these things work over there. Right now it's september, but in september his release is going to be postponed ( Read more... )

Yesterday i finished a short story over breakfast surrounded by giant periwinkles and tree frogs and proceeded directly to the nearest bookshop to find a copy of patricia highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. It's really because of joey and the whole yaddo project that moved me to do it, and i dedicated the entire day to sitting in the shade and ( Read more... )

Sometimes i walk out into the fields and just sit there under a tree with a pack of cheap fags. It was one of those mornings.


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