I found this guy hanging in a butcher shop window near Atocha Station in downtown Madrid, Spain. … [Read more...]
What a Crappy Children’s Book!
I'm staying with my sister in Berlin, Germany right now. She has a 14-month-old son and I've learned a lot from seeing my sister's and her husband's new lives. First and foremost: don't have kids. Second, if you ignore my advice, crap will become a big part of your life.From changing diapers 38 times a day to attempting to rush the kid to the toilet every time he says the … [Read more...]
Erawan Waterfall: Swimming With Flesh-Eating Monsters
Kanchanaburi Thailand is home to one of the most beautiful waterfalls I've ever seen and a couple of other entirely unspectacular sights, like the bridge over the river Kwai and the very appropriately named Death Railway; appropriate not because it's dangerous, but because it moves so slowly that anyone who boards past the age of fifty will die of natural causes by the time it … [Read more...]
First Hasselhoff, Now Money Boy: Thanks a Lot German Speakers
First they launched David Hasselhoff's singing career, now German speakers have found another way to invite the world's ridicule. Meet Money Boy, an Austrian (at least he's not from Germany—you have no idea how happy that makes me) "rapper".When I first saw this video, I thought (for obvious reasons) that he's just some guy who made a rap video in his spare time, doing a … [Read more...]
Besisahar to Khudi: Most People Walk Further to Work
When the day came to set out for the town of Besisahar at the beginning of the Annapurna Circuit trek in Nepal, I was a bit apprehensive, as I knew it would be the beginning of up to a month or more of continuous walking. As a person who generally tries to keep his daily walking time under ten minutes, that seemed a little daunting.The amazing scenery I'd heard so much … [Read more...]