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The Only Living Girl in Paris: May 2010
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The Only Living Girl in Paris. Sunday, May 23, 2010. 24: Division of Labor. A smattering of tiny plays about France :. 24 : Division of labor. Our main character, the American Girl parks her shamefully Bobo vintage Peugeot bicycle in front of a coffee shop. As it happens, the bike stand is a few inches from a homeless man, basking in the sun, surrounded by empty bottles of wine. With awkwardness] Could you keep an eye on my bike for me? I have other things to do! It's not my responsibility! You have sooo...
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The Only Living Girl in Paris: April 2010
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The Only Living Girl in Paris. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Madness, self-reference, cupcakes. 1) Despite feeble efforts to keep this blog quiet, OLGIP was pulled up by some blog networking site as a "Top 35" blog under the category. madness. While I will probably never understand how this happened, I just wanted to say thank you to whomever categorized my blog as "Paris, Politics, Madness". I mean, I would have preferred "angriness" but "madness" is a close second. Shucks. Wipes away tears of joy]. It’...
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The Only Living Girl in Paris: November 2009
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The Only Living Girl in Paris. Monday, November 30, 2009. Jason Bourne's nagging mother. I knew today was going to be a good day when I saw someone reading a book about psychopaths. Riding to work on line 2, a woman was reading a photocopied book chapter entitled, " Comment punir un psychopathe. How to punish a psychopath). Let's pause for a second to think about the fact that she had actually taken the effort to photocopy just. This chapter of the book. I'm in Berlin.". I need you to wire me money".
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The Only Living Girl in Paris: Madness, self-reference, cupcakes.
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The Only Living Girl in Paris. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Madness, self-reference, cupcakes. 1) Despite feeble efforts to keep this blog quiet, OLGIP was pulled up by some blog networking site as a "Top 35" blog under the category. madness. While I will probably never understand how this happened, I just wanted to say thank you to whomever categorized my blog as "Paris, Politics, Madness". I mean, I would have preferred "angriness" but "madness" is a close second. Shucks. Wipes away tears of joy]. It’...
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April | 2011 | View from a Little Plastic Chair
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View from a Little Plastic Chair. Monthly Archives: April 2011. April 11, 2011. Bob Dylan’s Saigon show made for a special day, a festival atmosphere that started with sunny afternoon drinks and live music out at the Boomerang Bar and ended in the cool nighttime air with Dylan singing, “Forever Young.” And fittingly … Continue reading →. The Trinh Cong Son of America. April 10, 2011. Alice's Adventures in Vietnam-Land. From Swerve of Shore. Mẹ ơi, Việt Nam ơi. Our Man in Hanoi. Postcards from Chef Shane.
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The City That Never Sleeps In: Fear and self-loathing in expat land
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The City That Never Sleeps In. Wednesday, 18 April 2012. Fear and self-loathing in expat land. This post first appeared on Crikey. And features a couple of observations from previous blog posts. Sorry for the rehash - I hope to post properly soon! To the Vietnamese who live around me, it’s clear where I fit in here: I don’t. The differences between us are as plain as the enormous nose on my big fat face. In Vietnam, I am, and always will be, a Tây. 8221; I would say, indignant and unbearable. Now, my fav...
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The City That Never Sleeps In: Why you should move to Vietnam
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The City That Never Sleeps In. Sunday, 16 October 2011. Why you should move to Vietnam. Two years ago today I stepped off a plane at Hanoi’s luxurious Noi Bai International Airport. It will be two years tomorrow for Nathan, because AusAID payed for my Cathay Pacific flight and Nathan paid for his own China Certain Death Airlines flight that featured a 12-hour layover in Taipei. He was quite literally a trailing spouse. Vietnam has a coastline of 3,444 kilometres. And it's all hedge. If we had spent the p...
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The City That Never Sleeps In: May 2012
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The City That Never Sleeps In. Monday, 21 May 2012. Sometimes it's better not to know. In Vietnam there is not much that separates the producers from the consumers. You don’t have to go to a far-flung industrial zone to see where your stuff comes from, you can just walk down the street:. How it had been made which devalued it. This is why in countries like Australia, manufacturers go to great lengths to gloss over a product’s provenance and to eradicate all trace of the human hands that made it com...
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The City That Never Sleeps In: A dose of gross
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The City That Never Sleeps In. Sunday, 15 May 2011. A dose of gross. When our friends Iona and Stew came to visit us in Hanoi recently, Stew opened the door of the taxi outside our house, got out, and put his foot smack-bang into our well-appointed neighbourhood sewerage hole. Literally his first step in Hanoi was into the thick, black poo water:. You’ve got to laugh. Right, Stew? Who received mere splashback from the cascade that specifically targeted my head alone – jumped back from their seats, ...
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Bear Rescue Center | View from a Little Plastic Chair
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View from a Little Plastic Chair. Dish #2 – Gà Kho Gừng. January 24, 2012. Alison and I spent the weekend at the wonderful Forest Floor Lodge. At Cat Tien National Park, where the noise of motorbike horns and karaoke are replaced by monkey calls and river rapids. While there, we hiked the short distance to the Wildlife at Risk (WAR) and Cat Tien National Park bear and wildcat rescue center. It was great to see the bears up close and hopefully on the road to rehabilitation. Dish #2 – Gà Kho Gừng.
