riobamba y banos, ecuador surprisingly – without more incident – we survive el nariz del diablo and bus our way to riobamba. yes, it’s true, an inordinate amount of towns end in “bamba” here in ecuador. i don’t think it’s…
Photos: South America, 2013: magical unreality, high above quito
quito, ecuador july 26, 2003 we’re bussing and bumping along. we know the routine by now. we’ve tried to shorten our distances. not bus for ten hours at a stretch. make more stops. banos. amato. latacunga. still on l’avenida de…
xmas in new york 2002
autumn, 2002 arrived back from malaysia on august 30th, already a week late for classes. all too immediately, and not much to my liking, hurtled back into the too comfortable, and oh so familiar, LA routine: wake at 6, doze,…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 1, the iron horse and the bucket brigade
swimming with turtles I’m floating face down in the calm sulu sea. sort of like william holden in the opening scene of sunset boulevard. not dead in norma desmond’s over-chlorinated, tepid swimming pool, but floating in the briny sulu…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 2, swimming with turtles
swimming with turtles i’m floating face down in the calm sulu sea. sort of like william holden in the opening scene of sunset boulevard. not dead in norma desmond’s over-chlorinated, tepid swimming pool, but floating in the briny sulu…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 3, slow! clouded leopard lane
Slow! clouded leopard lane leapin’ lemurs! rushin’ rhinocerii! just when he thought he was lost at the bottom of the deep blue sulu sea, he miraculously flash gordoned out of an unforeseen anti-sink escape hole in the green-turtled aquashere…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 4, VOODOO
he’s back in yankee stadium, the green grass-brown earth memory dome of 1956, back when mickey mantle’s triple crown was the greatest thing a long island jew boy could worship, before jfk was shot, the vietnam war took off america’s…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 5, so enough about me…. wish you were here
so, enough about me you want to know about the food the people well fuck you i mean fine what can i tell you? it’s all about me right? like it’s all about you okay your kids your husbands, wives,…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 6, pedagogy
pedagogy so.. some of you doubting toms and tomettes seem to think that I NEVER WORK oh yeah i’ve gotten the subtle suggestions, the caustic remarks i can see you all sitting there with those knowing, self-satisfied smiles on your…
Borneo, 2002: chapter 7, tall tales
there are tall tales among the people and villages of sabah and sarawak in north borneo, malaysia. simply wrought folktales. mythical tales and tribal stories that are passed on orally from one generation to the next. from father to son,…