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- Trip Report IV - Phnom Penh
As we drove away from the Choeung Ex Genocidal Center, my driver asked me if I was interested in going to a shooting range. While I turned down the offer, I couldn't help but wonder if a common reaction to visiting the Killing Fields was wanting to go do something pointlessly violent. It's an entirely helpless feeling, wandering about... - Trip Report III - Chiang Mai
While there are some not-to-be-missed tourist highlights in Chiang Mai - the night market, Doi Suthep - for me, it was mostly just a great place to walk around. It’s a city I felt I could grasp in my head, which is pretty much impossible in Bangkok. More laid-back than Bangkok, and way less seedy than Pattaya, it was... - Trip Report II - Pattaya
Pattaya is a beach community not far from Bangkok with a reputation for seediness that it’s trying hard to live down. I’m not sure it’s really succeeding. The economy seems to be based around white guys looking for cut-rate Thai girlfriends (and/or boyfriends; at least it’s equal opportunity). The most visible aspect of this is that pretty much every... - Trip Report I - Bangkok
Greetings! Now that I have something to actually write about (three weeks in Thailand and Cambodia), here I am posting again. Maybe I’ll even continue after I finish my write-up! You can see all my pictures from the trip at flickr, and read on for the first installment of my notes. Suvarnabhumi Airport, the new international airport in Bangkok, is... - Twitch City on DVD
Huzzah! Twitch City is finally coming to DVD. It’s available to order on amazon. (via)... - Illuminares 2006
Dancing Light Originally uploaded by icathing. My favorite shot from this year’s Illuminares.... - Andre the Giant
In case you’ve ever wondered about the origins of the somewhat ubiquitous Andre the Giant graffiti stencils (e.g.), Perry Farrell interviews the originating artist: Part one: Part two:... - On On Beauty
Zadie Smith discusses the writing of On Beauty: I find myself occupied by someone else’s quote during composition. For White Teeth it was cinematic and naive; Katie Hepburn saying: “The time to make up your mind about people is … never!” For On Beauty the following quote from David Foster Wallace (he is talking about Kafka’s work) sat deep in... - How We Got Insipid
Jonathan Lethem, one of my favorite authors, has a short story collection coming out, How We Got Insipid. What’s odd about this is that the publisher can’t promote the book in the press: [A]ccording to the press release accompanying the book, Subterranean is contractually obliged not to promote the work via the usual channels — it can’t send the book... - Please: Shut Up
Just why people pay up to $100 or more per seat to attend a concert, only to talk throughout it, is a mystery. Indeed it is. (via)... - Art isn't really about trees and cows and madonnas
An amusing story, but not particularly well-written: Vancouver art controversy just a sign of the times. The art in question: [A] member of the Vancouver Police Department strode into the ultra-cool Contemporary Art Gallery on a lovely, sunlit afternoon one day last week to inform the gallery that David Grandy wanted his signs back. The gallery was caught red-handed.... - Rothko the Writer
Rothko the writer - an article discussing Rothko’s writings, The Artist’s Reality, and Writings on Art. Although it had enjoyed a long life in the mythology surrounding Rothko, the actual manuscript for “The Artist’s Reality” had spent almost 50 years hidden in a manilla folder, labeled “miscellaneous papers,” before being accidentally discovered by the estate’s bookkeeper in 1988. Not wanting... - Action Philosophers
I’m not a big recommender of comics, but there’s no better deal going right now then the first collection of Action Philosophers, which is cheap ($8.99 at my local comic shop, $7.76 on amazon), funny, and educational. Previews here.... - We were exiled from the garden
From a wonderful interview with Leonard Cohen in the new Brick: SR: Do you think opinion is second-rate in general? LC: Well, for the purpose of conversation, opinion is valuable. SR: It gets you through. LC: It just gets you through the dinner. You know, I could dredge up an opinion and even defend it, but I’m less and less... - More for the pile
Two upcoming titles I’ll be looking forward to: Martin Amis’ House of Meetings With Borges by Alberta Manguel...
