[Jack's Famous Bar in Kensington, Philadelphia on 7/28/15] After a week anywhere, Johnathan would get an itch to move on, he told me. I like to linger at least a month. With such restlessness, he’s visited a hundred countries at age 42. After one week in Vung Tau, he’s now in Dalat, then back to Penang, where his wife waits. After the quickest rest, they’ll fly to Nepal, Perugia and Rome. All this time, his wife is working as an architect.
> With current film wizardry, it will be even easier ... to stage landings on ... the sun
> at exactly noon (when it’s hottest).
Reminds me of an old joke. Asked about the Americans' success in landing on the moon, the astrophysicists of _____ [country X] scoffed. They boasted that they would soon land a spacecraft on the Sun! When it was pointed out that the Sun is unsurvivably hot, they replied 'Yes, but that is the genius of our plan. We're going to do it _at night_!'
"Martin lives in Portugal, with a decade in Belgium before that. Like Morris Berman, Fred Reed is in Mexico, as is Australian Max Igan. Canadian James Cobbert lives in Japan. I’m composed and well fed in Vung Tau."
Was checking out the latest propaganda on the local TV channels the other day, and sure enough, they were all promoting the latest "Booster" shot. Even the alleged liberal on the local PBS station was blabbing on about it until I finally turned the channel as I felt my Irish temper kicking in.
The Booster comes in two flavors, Pfizer or Moderna.
I remember when they tried to get us to decide between Ford & Chevy.
I also am very glad you continue to let us in on your life in such an entertaining fashion. And I almost love your photographs more than your writing. Browsing through your previous writing I discovered the links to tales of Americans who have moved permanently abroad and found them deeply fascinating, especially some of which will have been shaken off their peaceful and fulfilling trajectory such as the man who was raising children in Kiev. And I wonder what has happened to some of them, like the man who was going to return to Mexico in light of the changed attitude to immigration in America. Did he go ahead and return? Sounded like a good idea. I escaped the frozen north for good forty-five years ago and am firmly rooted in Australia, despite being at heart, a Canadian - that will never change - but I have no desire to return. There is always a feeling of not belonging though, and not really wanting to belong to the country I have lived in more than half my life. I think this is the condition of a certain sort of person who will seek out this kind of life. I knew American draft dodgers in Canada who could not return to the US for many, many years and when they could, tried it out and promptly high-tailed it back to Canada - being displaced is a state of mind some of us are comfortable with and wouldn't have it any different. I am not arguing for it, I think some of us are born that way and have trouble being a fully-fledged anything.
In Montreal I saw quite a few homeless panhandling under -10 degrees celsius. However, I think at night they slept at the metro station or in the underground mall galleries.
Corbett in Japan? I thought Japan was a very difficult place to migrate to, how do you do it? Unless you have a job there, or marry a Japanese.
Thanks so much for another wonderful essay. There are so many homeless living on the streets in Sacramento. It's really hot here right now. 110 degrees! Talk about being boiled alive!
Linh...are the people in Viet Nam getting the Covid jew jabs too? hope not...we already damaged them enough with the "regular" jew jabs for "polio" and all the other non existent "viruses"...not to mention agent orange and napalm...the "virus" hoax explained...share it...https://www.bitchute.com/video/rHmg8EY3cXPD/
“Martin lives in Portugal, with a decade in Belgium before that. Like Morris Berman, Fred Reed is in Mexico, as is Australian Max Igan. Canadian James Cobbert lives in Japan. I’m composed and well fed in Vung Tau.
In 2020, Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka returned to Japan over safety concerns for his wife and kids. Why stay in some deadly shithole? “
The new kind of voters - they use their feet. It’s the new trend - get it while it lasts…
It is James Corbett in Japan? Pewdiepie is in Japan too now. :-D
> With current film wizardry, it will be even easier ... to stage landings on ... the sun
> at exactly noon (when it’s hottest).
Reminds me of an old joke. Asked about the Americans' success in landing on the moon, the astrophysicists of _____ [country X] scoffed. They boasted that they would soon land a spacecraft on the Sun! When it was pointed out that the Sun is unsurvivably hot, they replied 'Yes, but that is the genius of our plan. We're going to do it _at night_!'
"Martin lives in Portugal, with a decade in Belgium before that. Like Morris Berman, Fred Reed is in Mexico, as is Australian Max Igan. Canadian James Cobbert lives in Japan. I’m composed and well fed in Vung Tau."
Linh what a beautiful statement as always.
Jeff is also in Mexico
Everyone is somewhere
Sincerely
Linh
Was checking out the latest propaganda on the local TV channels the other day, and sure enough, they were all promoting the latest "Booster" shot. Even the alleged liberal on the local PBS station was blabbing on about it until I finally turned the channel as I felt my Irish temper kicking in.
The Booster comes in two flavors, Pfizer or Moderna.
I remember when they tried to get us to decide between Ford & Chevy.
Bill
I also am very glad you continue to let us in on your life in such an entertaining fashion. And I almost love your photographs more than your writing. Browsing through your previous writing I discovered the links to tales of Americans who have moved permanently abroad and found them deeply fascinating, especially some of which will have been shaken off their peaceful and fulfilling trajectory such as the man who was raising children in Kiev. And I wonder what has happened to some of them, like the man who was going to return to Mexico in light of the changed attitude to immigration in America. Did he go ahead and return? Sounded like a good idea. I escaped the frozen north for good forty-five years ago and am firmly rooted in Australia, despite being at heart, a Canadian - that will never change - but I have no desire to return. There is always a feeling of not belonging though, and not really wanting to belong to the country I have lived in more than half my life. I think this is the condition of a certain sort of person who will seek out this kind of life. I knew American draft dodgers in Canada who could not return to the US for many, many years and when they could, tried it out and promptly high-tailed it back to Canada - being displaced is a state of mind some of us are comfortable with and wouldn't have it any different. I am not arguing for it, I think some of us are born that way and have trouble being a fully-fledged anything.
Yes. I wouldn't mind the gecko's life.
In Montreal I saw quite a few homeless panhandling under -10 degrees celsius. However, I think at night they slept at the metro station or in the underground mall galleries.
Corbett in Japan? I thought Japan was a very difficult place to migrate to, how do you do it? Unless you have a job there, or marry a Japanese.
Thanks so much for another wonderful essay. There are so many homeless living on the streets in Sacramento. It's really hot here right now. 110 degrees! Talk about being boiled alive!
I'm very glad that you continue to write for your English speaking audience.
Linh...are the people in Viet Nam getting the Covid jew jabs too? hope not...we already damaged them enough with the "regular" jew jabs for "polio" and all the other non existent "viruses"...not to mention agent orange and napalm...the "virus" hoax explained...share it...https://www.bitchute.com/video/rHmg8EY3cXPD/
“Martin lives in Portugal, with a decade in Belgium before that. Like Morris Berman, Fred Reed is in Mexico, as is Australian Max Igan. Canadian James Cobbert lives in Japan. I’m composed and well fed in Vung Tau.
In 2020, Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka returned to Japan over safety concerns for his wife and kids. Why stay in some deadly shithole? “
The new kind of voters - they use their feet. It’s the new trend - get it while it lasts…