Category: Brian projects
Back in olden days dating to summer 2014, it used to be that when I went running in London, invariably I ran the towpath along Regent’s Canal. I’d start …
At The Duke’s Head pub in Highgate, a north London suburb with a scruffy-handsome comportment that recalls a nineteenth-century English village, The Meat Heads served the meatballs (and mushroom …
They say that around 30 pubs across the United Kingdom are closing weekly, but you wouldn’t know it after a night out in London, where these days quality is …
The clarity is striking in one of the black-and-white photographic portraits hung on a second-floor wall of the Victorian-era London house in which I’m staying for a few months. …
The last thing I did on the day before leaving for London was drink a tumbler of Chivas Regal—two shots on the rocks, watered down a little with water—on …
Singapore celebrates SG50 with a festive downtown parade – There is absolutely nothing cool about it — its shopping mall setting, its bland decor, its depressing corporate-drone clientele — …
A bomb went off in Bangkok this week, by which I mean to say, in a less passive manner, that a man wearing a yellow t-shirt and, possibly, a …
Results from a recent study published by researchers in the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences indicate that eating spicy foods may help you live longer. Can getting knackered on …
Consider this curious, white-gloved creature of imagined import, stalking Phetchaburi Road–the middle of Phetchaburi Road, mind you, on a stretch of road that not even Thais will cross, not …
On behalf of a well-respected travel site, a well-known travel writer recently visited Bangkok on a quest to find the “perfect pad Thai.” It was a noble, if not …
In Bangkok taxis are cheap (fares start at 35 baht), and abundant, and every color of the rainbow. Most drivers don’t speak much English, and they hate traffic. Fucking …
It’s 10:30am and I’m sitting at my desk, laboring over the lead–or what we in the industry call “the hook”–for a sweeping 2,500-word feature story commissioned by a glossy …
