Category: Brian projects
I love Bangkok. It’s my home away from home, and at one point it actually was my home (and I hope it is again sometime soon). Still, sometimes I …
The old graveyard up the hill seemed just as forgotten as the British colonials buried there 150 years ago. There was nobody in sight, no shade, no breeze, nothing—just …
Recent studies estimate just 1.8 square meters of green space in Bangkok per resident; indeed, this might be one of the noisiest, dirtiest, and sweatiest capital cities you’ll encounter …
Our three days of indulgence in the Cape Winelands flashed by like an ’80s movie montage, all postcard-perfect backdrops, long laughs, rental cars, and red teeth. During our three-day …
I was lured in by the sound of basketballs swish, swish, swishing through a metal hoop with a chain-link net. One 10-baht coin bought me three minutes on the …
This was my bedroom on the 18th floor of the Platinum Fashion Mall Condominiums in Bangkok, Thailand, where I lived and worked for 8 months in 2008-09. To the …
Eight months ago I woke up to a cup of coffee, as usual, and opened an email that informed me that I’d won a dream vacation, which was not …
Bad dining experiences are a good thing, or at least they can be, from a certain point of view. Located at the lovely Vineyard Hotel & Spa in the …
A thirtysomething couple, possibly new to the neighborhood and definitely new to the bar, stands just inside the door and timidly scans the scene at Palace Café, a Brooklyn …
My life changed in 1994 when a friend jammed Chocolate and Cheese into the tape deck of my boxy, baby-blue colored Ford Fairmont. By the time Gene Ween’s last …
There was somebody drowning in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The circumstances called for action. I was swimming at isolated Goyambokka Beach in southern Sri Lanka, the kind …
“Do you ever walk alone, like a drifter in the dark?” – Ween, “Drifter in the Dark” We were lost, lost, hopelessly lost, and our only lifeline, a string …