Archive for January 2026
2 Stories of 2 Waters
So, my blogging habits have been chugging along now for damn near 25 years—started in 2003, so call it 24 if you want to be a pedant about it. But my problem in these last few years has been this nagging sense of a paradigm shift. What I mean is, shit just ain’t the same…
Read MoreThe Rip; Damon, Affleck, Rogan and Contrasts
This is a rare one from me, because I don’t often do a whole post about a film. I’m making an exception. I’m so fucking tired of my daily scrolls and forays into both X and Facebook. It strikes me that if I scroll through 300 posts from others or so, depending on the day,…
Read MoreRIP Art de Vany
You wouldn’t be reading this if not for Art. In 2007, on my own initiative, I began getting a grip on my health by cleaning up my diet and hitting the gym. But it was the way I was doing the gym that caught the interest of a reader who commented, “you sound like Art…
Read MoreHighlights From My Road Trip
Blogging Has Turned for Me Blogging has turned for me from something that was once a core part of my life—and this is rather serious and important to me, because I’ve been doing it for now 22 or 23 years, and I was very productive at it for a long time. I mean, I maintained…...
Knock Knock Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
A sad day yesterday. Far and I spent the early morning freezing our asses off in northern Thailand with a northern wind from all the bad places up north. Fuck the north. The wind eased up. In between hauling armloads of pruned branch debris from trees, I sought refuge on the tailgate of my pickup…
Read MoreAustralian Man Punches Me Last Night
I’ll get to that story at the end. OK, so here’s what went down. A few weeks back, I snagged myself a diesel pickup truck, and then I figured, why the hell not? I loaded up with my Thai girlfriend, one of her sons, and his pregnant girlfriend, and we hit the road for a…
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