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- The Wrath of Khan
- Accents On The Mekong - Pousi Galore - More Misconceptions - Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates - Journalists In The Minefields |
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December 08, 2004
The Wrath of KhanDAY 412: Perhaps the most popular Laotian, at least in American pop culture, is the animated character Khan from the animated series King of the Hill, created by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead and Office Space fame. Khan and...Read this entry December 09, 2004
Accents On The MekongDAY 413: Sue, the woman of the Phonethip Guesthouse in Pak Beng, was making the sandwiches we pre-ordered the night before, so that we could bring them on our long slow boat ride down the Mekong to Luang Prabang. "You...Read this entry December 12, 2004
Pousi GaloreDAY 414: I've been going through southeast Asia thus far with a sort of sardonic attitude; as nice as it is, "southeast Asia" has become a sort of cliché in my mind, although I have no right to be a...Read this entry More MisconceptionsDAY 415: My name is Erik, with a "K" for the fourth letter, which is the uncommon spelling in North America. I was never a fan of pre-made personalized key chains and mugs growing up; most of the time they...Read this entry Life Is Like A Box Of ChocolatesDAY 416: I am going to parallel this entry to scenes and quotes from the movie Forrest Gump, a movie I will assume most of you have seen (perhaps not as often as I have), since certain elements of the...Read this entry December 13, 2004
Journalists In The MinefieldsDAY 417: The infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail, the secret route that ultimately led Communist North Vietnam to victory in the Vietnam War, crossed through a portion of northern Laos. Because of this, the US military dropped over two billion...Read this entry |