[Palmyra, 8/14/13] This appalling incident occurred in 2017, and there was at least one witness to vouch for my truth, and nothing but the truth. When a young, apparently normal waiter in Florensac found out I was from Philadelphia, he immediately blurted, “I hope to go there some day, so I can try the cheesesteak!”
Let us be optimistic. Let us. I won't really be alarmed until all manner of A, B, and C list entities disappear to their hidey-holes in the clockwise hemisphere. Keep your eyes peeled for their conspicuous absence, or for Zelenskyy-style holograms.
Now, a dirty bomb false-flag, on the other hand... and of course, conventional explosives could still pound Guam back into sand. Personally, the idea of the bulk of humanity dropping dead to VAER's is something which grows more attractive with every interaction I have with the outside world. It's time for a reset, were it not for the 6 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 minorities who will finally inherit the earth for themselves.
The Us empire is hard to leave. It and those who have instrumentalized it tend to follow you wherever you go. But I wish you well with your extrication. I recommend reading Dr. E Michael Jones. He is the only one who is hopeful without being deluded that I know of. And he is just as cancelled by the same forces as you are, so you have a lot in common! May God protect you. (Maybe you don't believe in God, but I do, so I will pray that He protects you.)
Linh, as a stray member of the Vietnamese flock are you able to get citizenship there so you have a permanent base? Is that something you want?
You are still a youngster (I am almost 70). In my 50s and early 60s, a mobile life was fascinating: living in a country for a year then moving on with a lot of travel in between.
However, with all the crazy Covid rules and the homogenization of so much of the planet I started to burn out from the experience.
As I look at the prospect of life late 70s and beyond (well as much beyond as I end up getting), I am not sure that being 80 is a great fit with life on the road.
Maybe 80 and migrating around the planet would keep me young. Maybe not.
What do you see in your future (if we have one) given your no BS look at what is happening with the planet?
In order to make my way through your incomparable glimpses of a world I will never see, I have been going to your photographic blog daily and working my way backwards from the end, therefore visiting towns in China, Poland, Vietnam, Sud Afrika, in a happy jumble of humanity and their images. I got to Vung Tau and found this article with pictures. In Melbourne, Australia there is a plethora of Vietnamese restaurants which seem to be very good although I have nothing to compare them to.
Now I have another lead to follow up: Tarkovsky and I have not even worked myself through the last row of your blog posts. Happy trails, lenh denh.
"Stalker" is a great movie. A bit slow, perhaps, but such iconic scenes (black dog / dream scene). I am not sure what's the relation to the rest of the post, or maybe I'm sleepy.
Incidentally, it is possible that Tarkovsky and others from the crew died earlier than they should, from cancer, due to the chemical exposure during the shooting of "Stalker" somewhere in an abandoned factory in Estonia.
I don't think nuclear war is coming soon, but economic crisis and poverty, and old style civil war? Sure.
Hi, Linh! I came back to the story of the Third International, because it seems to me the closest story to what we are living now. It is a Jewish story, like all the most important stories. The smartest person was Karl Radek (Karol Sobelsohn), who called Lenin "a brilliant imbecile." Not bad either was Stalin, who made the wisecrack that a pogrom should be organized inside the Soviet Communist Party: there were too many Jews.
Jack's is a great bar. When I left Philly +4 years ago, it was still owned by Mel, a very well-read old Jewish guy with an oil painter for a wife. He was about to sell the bar to some "Asian guy" I never saw. With the neighborhood gone way downhill, Jack's didn't welcome nightshift workers in the morning but pimps, whores, junkies and maybe an old dude or two who couldn't sleep.
I wrote about Jack's, McGlinchey's, Dirty Frank's or Friendly Lounge more than any other Philly bar. Below are links to some photos of Jack's.
A panorama showing decades-old bottles and a handful of regulars, 7/28/15:
With Samantha Melamed of the Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/13/17. Wanting to write about Jack's, she asked me to be her guide. With the neighborhood so deadly, she probably didn't feel safe going there by herself:
Photo from 1/20/14. Note at the time, "His first war was Vietnam, and his last was Desert Storm in 1991, so the 'Iraqi Freedom Veteran' cap is not appropriate. He survived all these wars because he was merely a cook, he confided. When I asked if I could take his photo, he said, 'I don't care! You can take a photo of my balls if you want to!':
Let us be optimistic. Let us. I won't really be alarmed until all manner of A, B, and C list entities disappear to their hidey-holes in the clockwise hemisphere. Keep your eyes peeled for their conspicuous absence, or for Zelenskyy-style holograms.
Miles Mathis' latest-
"𝘛𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘥, 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢-𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦-𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘱𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 “𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬”. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧, 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴."
"𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙖 𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐.𝙎. 𝙣𝙪𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙚."
"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 “𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪” 𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘦. 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯."
http://mileswmathis.com/sa2.pdf
Now, a dirty bomb false-flag, on the other hand... and of course, conventional explosives could still pound Guam back into sand. Personally, the idea of the bulk of humanity dropping dead to VAER's is something which grows more attractive with every interaction I have with the outside world. It's time for a reset, were it not for the 6 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 minorities who will finally inherit the earth for themselves.
The Us empire is hard to leave. It and those who have instrumentalized it tend to follow you wherever you go. But I wish you well with your extrication. I recommend reading Dr. E Michael Jones. He is the only one who is hopeful without being deluded that I know of. And he is just as cancelled by the same forces as you are, so you have a lot in common! May God protect you. (Maybe you don't believe in God, but I do, so I will pray that He protects you.)
Linh, as a stray member of the Vietnamese flock are you able to get citizenship there so you have a permanent base? Is that something you want?
You are still a youngster (I am almost 70). In my 50s and early 60s, a mobile life was fascinating: living in a country for a year then moving on with a lot of travel in between.
However, with all the crazy Covid rules and the homogenization of so much of the planet I started to burn out from the experience.
As I look at the prospect of life late 70s and beyond (well as much beyond as I end up getting), I am not sure that being 80 is a great fit with life on the road.
Maybe 80 and migrating around the planet would keep me young. Maybe not.
What do you see in your future (if we have one) given your no BS look at what is happening with the planet?
How ironic/poetic to end up in Guam on your way out of America...
You thought you were rescued by the Yanks in 75. I wonder what you would call it now, in retrospect?
It would be fun to imagine an alternate-world Linh where you went to Germany instead in 75? So many Viets in Berlin...
In order to make my way through your incomparable glimpses of a world I will never see, I have been going to your photographic blog daily and working my way backwards from the end, therefore visiting towns in China, Poland, Vietnam, Sud Afrika, in a happy jumble of humanity and their images. I got to Vung Tau and found this article with pictures. In Melbourne, Australia there is a plethora of Vietnamese restaurants which seem to be very good although I have nothing to compare them to.
Now I have another lead to follow up: Tarkovsky and I have not even worked myself through the last row of your blog posts. Happy trails, lenh denh.
"Stalker" is a great movie. A bit slow, perhaps, but such iconic scenes (black dog / dream scene). I am not sure what's the relation to the rest of the post, or maybe I'm sleepy.
Incidentally, it is possible that Tarkovsky and others from the crew died earlier than they should, from cancer, due to the chemical exposure during the shooting of "Stalker" somewhere in an abandoned factory in Estonia.
I don't think nuclear war is coming soon, but economic crisis and poverty, and old style civil war? Sure.
Hi Linh,
Two links if I may. Both followed from your still of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExJ1-nQeZ68&list=PLRBvBK-8jz0UXeqjcDHSDPsUOjzqyqlU_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGKENjR5sIU&list=PLRBvBK-8jz0UmGz7Ew4cMlk2abJ9lAWuh
I don't know what this means but I will just let it flow until I do.
Mazol tov amigo.
New rule: I stop reading as soon as I see <Introductory clause>, ....
The pun of sentence structure, this form needs to be used judiciously, if at all.
Hi, Linh! I came back to the story of the Third International, because it seems to me the closest story to what we are living now. It is a Jewish story, like all the most important stories. The smartest person was Karl Radek (Karol Sobelsohn), who called Lenin "a brilliant imbecile." Not bad either was Stalin, who made the wisecrack that a pogrom should be organized inside the Soviet Communist Party: there were too many Jews.
You post a lot. Are you in trouble?
Hi Thorsten,
Like many people, I feel a sense of urgency. Perhaps you do too?
Linh
I had also noticed this lately, and I know what you mean!
Hi everybody,
Jack's is a great bar. When I left Philly +4 years ago, it was still owned by Mel, a very well-read old Jewish guy with an oil painter for a wife. He was about to sell the bar to some "Asian guy" I never saw. With the neighborhood gone way downhill, Jack's didn't welcome nightshift workers in the morning but pimps, whores, junkies and maybe an old dude or two who couldn't sleep.
I wrote about Jack's, McGlinchey's, Dirty Frank's or Friendly Lounge more than any other Philly bar. Below are links to some photos of Jack's.
A panorama showing decades-old bottles and a handful of regulars, 7/28/15:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2015/07/jackx27s-famous-bar-on-7-28-15.html
With Samantha Melamed of the Philadelphia Inquirer, 5/13/17. Wanting to write about Jack's, she asked me to be her guide. With the neighborhood so deadly, she probably didn't feel safe going there by herself:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2017/05/samantha-melamed-at-jackx27s-famous-bar.html
With Jonathan Revusky, visiting from Spain on 4/22/17:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2017/04/linh-dinh-and-jonathan-revusky-in.html
Bartender Phyllis with a friend on 12/25/14:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2014/12/phyllis-and-friend-in-jackx27s-on.html
Me receiving charity food and Christian booklets on Christmas of 2014:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2014/12/linh-dinh-in-jackx27s-with-bag-of-gifts.html
Photo from 1/20/14. Note at the time, "His first war was Vietnam, and his last was Desert Storm in 1991, so the 'Iraqi Freedom Veteran' cap is not appropriate. He survived all these wars because he was merely a cook, he confided. When I asked if I could take his photo, he said, 'I don't care! You can take a photo of my balls if you want to!':
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2014/01/army-veteran-at-jacks-kensington-by.html
Poet Hai-Dang Phan visiting from Iowa on 8/24/15:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2015/08/hai-dang-at-jacks-kensington.html
Old woman drinking an empty mug for at least an hour because she had run out of money, 3/31/14:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2014/03/jackx27s-on-3-19-14-kensington-by-linh.html
Lovely Jack's at night in beautiful Kensington on 3/31/14:
https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2014/03/jackx27s-on-3-19-14-kensington-4-by.html
Linh