tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18018708861576809722024-03-13T09:38:52.726-07:00Duck For ComfortColinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-30908439855144378712012-04-23T07:43:00.002-07:002012-04-23T07:43:52.756-07:00Red-shirt rendesvousThe cover from this weekend's Daily magazine.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Photo: Ben Woods</span></i></span>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-88356023745428416652012-03-02T18:27:00.000-08:002012-03-02T18:27:12.327-08:00Rural Knot Tying: A TeaserHere are a few photos to wet your appetite for a Khmer wedding super blog that will be delivered within 2-4 business days (i havent uploaded the bulk of the photos yet). As my girl firend's father passed away last year, her sister needed a male figure to fill the paternal role in the ceremonies. Guess who it was...<br />
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And one note, i was not swimming across irrigation canals or doing drugs backstage with the late John Belushi during the nuptuals, it was just sweat-your-balls-off hot in lovely, scantily air-conditioned Pursat. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gettin' sweaty with the patriarch of the groom's faction.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bride (tiara) with one of her dearest friends, Sole.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heat-ravaged hairdos and Leang ravaging an apple.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahhh, so sweet.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-58872908771630298172012-03-01T09:06:00.000-08:002012-03-01T09:06:00.084-08:00A Cambodian take on WyethIf you don't know this original work, my wit may be beyond you, but here is a crappily photoshopped rendition of Wyeth's <a href="http://arthistory.about.com/od/famous_paintings/ss/andrew_wyeth_christinas_world.htm">"Christina's World"</a> set in Phnom Penh's outskirts at a building site called <a href="http://www.worldcitycambodia.com/">Camko city</a>. <br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-50989527609562947122011-10-25T10:52:00.000-07:002011-10-25T10:52:37.190-07:00A jungle joke<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">A Khmer joke my girlfriend told that was told to her as a child:</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A tiger and a monkey are together in the jungle when they
learn of an emergency requiring their immediate attention. Because tigers naturally run
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<span style="font-size: small;">They set off and immediately the monkey is all flailing
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accomplished, the panting tiger thinks, as he looks back at the monkey, but he is furious at what
he sees.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> “What is wrong with you?” says the tiger. “That was far, and
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<span style="font-size: small;">“And look at you!” - the tiger is fed up at this point - “just
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Soon to be followed by humor in a similar form, by me…</span></i></div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-10300357168554121992011-10-09T12:01:00.000-07:002011-10-13T03:53:33.061-07:00Post-nuptial PortraitureHere are a few B&W photos I took of people at the wedding of Jennifer & Andy Cashin in September. If you wanna see the whole album track me down on Facebook. The name's Colin Meyn.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the Minnesota-bred brothers who wore different-colored, but otherwise identical, tailored suits over t-shirts emblazoned with a torso-sized thumbs-up to the ceremony.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alexis. Great musician. Fellow Wildcat. Last name unknown.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The best last: The groom, Andy Cashin (left) embraced by Jeff Kane (right).</span></i></td></tr>
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Many thanks to Jess (pictured below with this dude) for letting me use her sweet camera when the magic hour fell. <br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DYgku8STtIo/TpHqkSbhrOI/AAAAAAAAAh0/Ec3a-c6gW2E/s1600/me+and+jess.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DYgku8STtIo/TpHqkSbhrOI/AAAAAAAAAh0/Ec3a-c6gW2E/s320/me+and+jess.jpg" width="320" /></a>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-196093779358322011-09-27T08:35:00.000-07:002011-09-27T23:18:34.239-07:00A trip over a floating island òn the Mekong to the pagoda for Pchum Benh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(Note: the photos are taken by all of us, who included Khinzaw, Nila, Dalis Kopxyo (X) and myself (CM)</span></span><br />
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493: James Otoole's <a href="http://www.jamesotoole.net/">blog</a>.<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-1829176942269280012011-09-01T22:48:00.000-07:002011-09-02T15:06:27.601-07:00Touch'a'bummerWhy did Billy Preston get such little love for such a sweet performance in the aforementioned sessions? Shame. Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-67293794025291874022011-09-01T22:38:00.000-07:002011-09-01T22:38:15.159-07:00Oh, the greatest youtube video currently available...... The Beatles rooftop series I reckon.<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-66454841856158967622011-08-31T00:31:00.000-07:002011-08-31T00:31:12.461-07:00To TraceyTracey Shelton, a former colleague of mine at <i>The Phnom Penh Post </i>was recently <a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082451219/National-news/ex-post-staffer-beaten-in-libya.html">attacked in Libya</a>. Below is a slideshow to thank her for the work she is doing.<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-22409448281019561712011-08-23T21:59:00.000-07:002011-08-23T21:59:21.626-07:00Lovely color I might addCheck out the newest design project from this guy on this blog, <a href="http://duckforcomfort.blogspot.com/p/design-projects.html">right here. </a><br />
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Hope you know someone looking to give me money to perform a similar feat for their company:)<br />
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Good luck;)<br />
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The link to the PP Post story on their site doesn't work, because the PP Post crew still can't get their online shit straightened out, but you can check it out on the shop's <a href="http://colorvintageclothing.blogspot.com/">site </a>here, because out friend Ahti Westphal is awesome at straightening out shit.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Those Haikus were rubbish, but as <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4260/the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac">Jack Kerouac said about Haiku</a>, you take two weeks just to whittle down your ideas into 17 syllables, which leaves me about 13 days, 23 hours and 55 minutes away from refined poetry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The point is that Hawaiian woman are indeed beautiful, but their breadth is broadly misrepresented in calendars and such. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The other point is that dudes who go skin-diving are crazy tough. I met a brother of this dude's wife, who is Filipino-Hawaiian, and when he was in his prime he could stay under for more than four minutes just waiting for a big fish to come by. It's like deer hunting without breathing. Crazy shit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That dude also told me about this guy named Gene Higa (pictured above), who is now dead, but was apparently the best of the best when it came to spearfishing. He assured me there were tons of videos of him online, but all I could find was this <a href="http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/07/25/news/story1.html">obituary</a>, which is pretty depressing. Will post a video if I find one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I will try to do better next time, heading to Maine via Seattle and Detroit beginning tonight at 9 (Hawaii time). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">-C</span><br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-70149313132619573592011-08-03T20:44:00.000-07:002011-08-03T20:55:36.979-07:00Halfway from AsiaI am stuck in Honolulu at the moment due to my standby status with Delta airlines, but it could hardly be a better place to be stranded.<br />
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I am also typing from an Apple store in the big mall here, so I'll keep this short.<br />
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There was a mom and her son walking through the airport in front of me on the way to gate 25 to catch a 4 o'clock flight to Atlanta and I began eavesdropping on their conversation.<br />
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As they were walking by a LeSportsac luggage advertisement that featured a beautiful woman colorfully clothed with a matching bag that had colorful butterflies of all varieties flying out of it, the young boy remarked:<br />
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That's all for now, keep comfortable.<br />
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For this reason and many others that I will expound upon shortly, I was rather amused by Hun Sen's condemnation of the aforementioned outlets and their coverage of the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Below is a quote, as reported by Vong Sokheng for <i>The Post, </i>from Hun Sen, addressing his alleged interference with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT).<br />
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Now five thinly-sliced reasons why this quote is complete boloney.<br />
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1) The Prime Minister openly admits to being the de facto financier of every Cambodia-based radio news program, officially completing his collection of the four pillars of democracy.<br />
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2) Assuming that Hun Sen assumes himself to be the arbiter of such things, it is an impossibility that one could simultaneously "do something according to Khmer values" and do journalism. <br />
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3) If one were to oblige and move from VOA or RFA to a state-run radio station, they would also volunteer to cut their salary by some 75% (From $500-$1,000 range at a foreign service to $100-$400 at Cambodia-based competitors).<br />
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4) It is true that reporters for the VOA and RFA would forfeit their salary if they did not insult [<i>read: criticize</i>] the CPP, for they would be failing to fulfill their mandate of accurately reporting current events in Cambodia.<br />
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5) What Hun Sen is now calling an insult, that he is responsible for the closure of investigations related to cases 003 and 004 at the KRT, was a point of chest-thumping during his meeting with BanKi Moon in October, 2010, when he <a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011062950049/National-news/more-questions-for-krt-case-003.html">“clearly affirmed that Case 003 will not be allowed”</a>, according to an ensuing statement from Foreign Minister Hor Namhong.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Cambodian Wikileaks were released a few days back if you didn't get the memo. <i>The Phnom Penh Post</i>'s <a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/component/option,com_myblog/Itemid,13/category,176/task,tag/">reporting on the stash</a> has been fascinating. The issue breaking the leaks on July 13 included a graphic box with the top 10 tycoons in Cambodia, as named and nicknamed by the US Embassy in cables back to the motherland, with a two-sentence summary of their fortune and relations with the Big Boss Hun Sen. Here's a taste:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">See the whole delightfully frank list <a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011071350341/National-news/top-10-tycoons.html">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Although I concede that I hold a less pivotal role in bilateral relations than the ambassadors who penned the cables from Phnom Penh, I fashion myself to be a far superior nicknamer. Here is the first item on my unclassified but secret list of comparisons between Cambodia's power brokers and characters from classic kid's TV shows. I'm kicking it off with an extended analogy, but future comparisons will be punchier and less political I promise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This criticism of <i>Barney & Friends</i> from </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">a Chala Willig Levy in an article for <i>Parents </i>magazine is an ideal bit of insight to frame this pairing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>"[Barney's] shows do not assist children in learning to deal with negative
feelings and emotions. As one commentator puts it, the real danger from
Barney is denial: the refusal to recognize the existence of unpleasant
realities. For along with his steady diet of giggles and unconditional
love, Barney offers our children a one-dimensional world where everyone
must be happy and everything must be resolved right away" </i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The presentation of a one-dimensional world where everything must be resolved right away happens to also be a forte of Cambodia's premiere party. Complaints and criticisms are dismissed and discredited immediately and countered with Bible-thumping logic that the ruling-party's espoused reality is true because its true.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">While their psychological impact may be comparable, the creators of Barney & Friends, unlike CPP storytellers, were transparent about the fiction of their show, casting a giddy, bulbous and bright purple Tyrannosaurus Rex as the dear leader. 1-8-year-olds might believe anything they see on TV, as Levy suggests in her critique, but its not as easy to convince a country of 14-million people of a false reality. <span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) used the
judiciary, new laws, and threats of arrest or legal action to restrict
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<span style="font-size: small;">But just like Barney, Hun Sen can make bad feelings go away in an instant. The above HRW report was consistent with warnings and analysis from various Cambodia watchdogs, including Cristophe Peschoux, the long-time head of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights. His competing narrative of modern-day Cambodia risked upsetting the audience, and </span><span class="st"><em>voilà</em></span><span style="font-size: small;">...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>“If Mr Peschoux is not removed, then the UN human rights office in Phnom Penh will be closed." </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Khieu Kanharith, speaking for Hun Sen during UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's visit to the Kingdom in October, 2010, made the problem disappear. </span></div>
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-77806611651609381702011-07-21T23:32:00.000-07:002011-07-21T23:32:58.661-07:00bad news synthesizedThanks for the late-great Steve Finch, who recently left Phnom Penh, and my apartment more pertinently, there is a crisp <i>Phnom Penh Post </i>newspaper delivered to my doorstep every morning. Though I am not sure how long this convenience will last, I am positive that I read the newspaper this morning (early midday to be precise) and noted a particular saturation of horrifying news.<br />
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Later in the day I read <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1801870886157680972">this article</a> in <a href="http://slate.com/">Slate </a>about the Yellow Journalism pioneered by Pullitzer and Hearst and while I do not intend to draw a parrelel between the editorial style of <a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/"><i>The Post</i> </a>today and New York-based tabloids in the late 19th century, I was inspired by this list of headlines to Yellowize yesterday's happenings in the Kingdom.<br />
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Here is the list Slate ran from the <i>New York Herald </i>circa 1900:<br />
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ABSINTHE HIS BANE<br />ITALIAN FATALLY STABBED<br />INQUIRY ABOUT POISON GAS<br />FEROCIOUS DOG MANGLES A BOY<br />SINGER ENDS LIFE<br />THEY TRIED TO DIE TOGETHER</blockquote>
Here is the list I ran inspired by <i>The Phnom Penh Post </i>circa 2011. <br />
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HUNDREDS FAINT IN FACTORY<br />
SEX FORCED ON BEERGIRLS<br />
WIFE DOUSES & IGNITES HUSBAND<br />
KOH KONG KING OVERRULED<br />
2 VIETNAMESE RAPE FISHERMAN"S GIRL<br />
SOLDIERS MOONLIGHT IN ILLEGAL LOGGING<br />
HUSBAND STABS WIFE SIX TIMES <br />
RAPIST, 26, SAYS VICTIM, 13, WAS PLATONIC GIRLFRIEND<br />
BROTHER MURDERED OVER DEAD CHICKEN*<br />
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Check out <a href="http://phnompenhpost.com/">phnompenhpost.com</a> to see the full stories. The oversimplification was purposeful, of course, just an exercise in boistrous headline writing.<br />
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<br />Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-53297358462973166462011-07-21T14:26:00.000-07:002011-07-21T15:01:41.535-07:00A potent nightcapI tried to go to sleep, but after a few minutes of pillow flipping I decided that leaving my discovery list at such an odd number was unacceptable. Here are 3 diamonds from the quarries for you to sleep on, or wake up to, or ignore if you are one of the 6,929,999,991 people who didn't read this blog yesterday. <br />
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<b>502: </b><span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Sesame Street - Honker Duckie Dinger Jamboree">Honker Duckie Dinger Jamboree: a feel-good track if ever there was one. One of Ernie's break-out performances on his way to becoming the Dick Clark of puppet singalongs; as smooth today as he was when this short and swingin' music video aired in 1978. (I came across this track in this <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/weekend-at-kermies-the-muppets-strange-life-after-death">opinionated and entertaining piece on The Muppets</a> from <a href="http://theawl.com/">The Awl</a>).</span><br />
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<span class="" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Sesame Street - Honker Duckie Dinger Jamboree"><br /></span>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-64761992637274922282011-07-21T12:59:00.000-07:002011-07-21T13:02:45.251-07:00Taking lemons and making them fly<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
My buddy Khinzaw has been laid up in a Chinese hospital 20 minutes from my house for the past week waiting for the pain related to his condition to subside so the Chinese doctors can do surgery and he can begin a week of bed-ridden recovery at his house. I will only say that his major malfuntion loosely rhymes with asteroid and was caused by a poor diet and endless hours sitting on air-conditioner-cooled fake leather chairs in the newsroom. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Uncle Khinzaw has a baby boy back in Burma but makes his home in Phnom Penh due to preferable pay rates for newspaper designers in the Kingdom and decisions made by his boss, Publisher Ross Dunkley, who in the past few months spent 47 days in Myanmar's Insein Prison, was convicted of causing minor injuries to a Myanmar
woman and sentenced to 30 days in prison, which he had already served and ultimately "walked from court a free man," as his newspaper in Cambodia </span><a href="http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011070150124/National-news/the-posts-publisher-walks-free-from-court.html" style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> reported on July 1</a><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">. </span><i><br /></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>“The doctor called to to give evidence said this could have been caused
by anything,” Dunkley said after the verdict was handed down. "The girl wanted to withdraw the case twice. I absolutely deny that I touched this girl inappropriately. I was merely looking after this girl to get her to a taxi. I was worried about her, that’s all. I don’t hurt people. I don’t grab them by the neck or do anything stupid like that. Ever-yone knows I don’t do that. Many
people have known me for a long, long time, all of my staff, they know
that I’m not capable of doing such an act, so therefore I will appeal
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> That was a tangent. The point is that my dear friend Khinzaw is in rough shape at the moment and everyone is pretty concerned. I have been visiting him, on average, once every 1.75 days, and during our most recent rendezvous, he proved without question that his frail state is not stifling his creative mind. Khinzaw was my Adobe Design Master when I was learning the ropes of 2-dimensional design, but he never exposed his skills working in the 3rd dimension. This little gem was resting next to his bed yesterday, and discovering it was the highlight of my week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Call that #503 on the list.<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span>Come back often for updates on Uncle Khinzaw's condition. Surgery on Saturday.</span></div>Colinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15278766521582827068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1801870886157680972.post-49593455873122772582011-07-18T12:03:00.000-07:002011-07-18T12:22:57.146-07:00five awesome albumsAnother quick-hitter to knock a few more items off my list of 545 discoveries I made in my 545 days of blogo-silence. This time its five albums that you should give a spin if you haven't already.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>509:</b><i> </i></span><i><span style="font-size: small;">Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook: </span></i><span style="font-size: small;">The 20th centuries greatest voice does justice to the music of one of its greatest composers.<i style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">508: </span></b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i>w h o k i l l</i> by tUnE-yArDs: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Merrill Garbus, the New England-native behind this music project, mixes together a bunch of cool sounds and distortions to make a really weird and entertaining album.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>507: </b><i>Cardinology </i>by Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: I couldn't name a favorite album by Ryan Adams, my favorite musician, but this may be the catchiest despite its darkness. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>506:</b> <i>The Notorious XX</i> by wait what: I know this is not a unique pick, but I have listened to this mix more than any other album in the past few months. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>505: </b><i>Silent Shout</i> by The Knife: This album got mention on this list already and I have no regrets about it.</span></span></h1>
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