Archive for January, 2010

Name Change Party

What's in a name? Gentle gentrification: Forget the garish 'Knickers and Liquors' - it's now rebranding to 'MUSE LOUNGE'. Sign O' the times? Complimentary drink, free-flowing beer, free food from 6pm-8pm. Near Wat Sarawan, near corner of Street 19 and 172. (Map of locale) Check it out! I'll be there as pal ...

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This brightened up my day: Scholar and blogger Erik Davis (formerly of blog DeathPower) is back with "Imagining the Real World." Hooray! http://erikwdavis.wordpress.com Off to click through the many tidbits on offer, digesting a rather exhaustive examination of Chomsky Cambodia chronology. Postscript: more drama on that last bit from Details Are Sketchy! http://detailsaresketchy.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/scorned-in-cambodia/

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You just can't make stuff like this up. For Photo Wednesday.

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Bulldozing Chainsaws, Phnom Penh

A nice start to the day. (And I'd first thought it was a wedding!) I'll check the papers, doubtless these are confiscated from illegal logging operations (that haven't kept current on their bribes). (Click for larger size.)

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Happy New Year Gift

Gucci box re-purposed to hold yummy street food shells. Found on the street. 'Found Art'? Quintessentially Cambodian. Click for larger image.

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