who needs mistletoe and eggnog?
click here for all the party photos.
i also attended a festivus party recently. although i forgot to take photos during the party, my camera got loose to capture some of the aftermath. and it wasn’t pretty. evidently, after the “airing of grievances” and the “feats of strength,” another festivus tradition is getting stupid drunk.
12.28.2003, 7:47 PM · Photos, School · Comments (3)
i’m dreaming of a gray christmas
and guess what? i got it! oh, and i got a gray thanksgiving, too. pretty sure i’ll also be blessed with a gray new year. not sure about valentine’s day … but i’ve got my fingers crossed.
sometimes living in shanghai is like living inside a black and white movie. and this is one case where i’d be in favor of a little colorization. here, smog hovers until it passes the baton to darkness. what little color exists is quickly covered by a layer of dirt. and sorry, adding more neon lights isn’t going to do the trick.
12.24.2003, 11:41 PM · Diary, Humor, Observations · Comments (3)
cambodia :: day four :: part one :: boo from bokor
the man took center stage in the crumbling palace and proceeded to pantomime. he bent his legs and faked a strong grip on a big imaginary machine gun. and then he started shooting, fueling his fire with the cops-and-robbers sounds that kids make, shaking his body and turning from side to side, spraying his made-up bullets through large windowless openings, flying them over the thick jungle and in to the distant waters of the gulf of thailand.
then the man brushed his hands clean and laughed. without speaking a word, he had said what he wanted to say: not too long ago, the guns and the bullets were real. not too long ago — as recently as the late 1990s — the vast jungles of preah monivong national park were home to the last remnants of the khmer rouge.
12.16.2003, 9:34 PM · Cambodia
cambodia :: photos :: the faces of cambodia
for all of dan’s cambodia photos, click here.
