Out of Context Italia

I didn’t really get to do any tourist stuff the whole two weeks I was in Italy. Instead I just ate food and stared blankly at rocks. The one day I went to Florence, I didn’t even get to see David, they were too busy washing washing his balls or some such.
I did get […]

Italian Stereotypes TRUE or FALSE (or a little bit of both)

I recently got back from Italy for work purposes. Not much touring was done, but several stereotypes were done away with.

Stereotype:
Italians eat pasta everyday.

Veracity:
TRUE mostly

Observations:
Italians do eat pasta everyday, sometimes twice a day depending on the phase of the moon and the direction of the wind. Unless it’s risotto. And comparing these foods to the […]

Burma: Long Gone in Bagan

In the world, there’s a handful of places you must visit before you die. The Great Wall, The Pyramids, Angkorwat, Machu Pichhu, The Playboy Mansion Grotto, etc. Yet there is one dusty field full of relics that deserves to be on the list that most people have never even seen a postcard of.
About an […]

Burma: Being a Goon in Rangoon

Had no idea what this massive inaccessible colonial complex in downtown Rangoon was
Rangoon is the former capital of Burma and sits right on the Indian Ocean. It’s rumored that because of this, the xenophobic and paranoid generals moved the capital hundreds of miles inland to Naypyidaw to avoid a possible invasion against a country like […]

Burma: The WTF Money Situation

Other than those ass-eating generals who run rape the country, the only other thing I loathe about the place is what’s going on with the money. We’ve already established that the government is made up a subset of the human species that is about as nice as genital herpes. The western nations have thus placed […]

Burma (Myanmar): The Name Game

I made it to one of the last frontiers I’ve wanted to travel to over the tail end of the Chinese New Years break. The place? Burma or as it calls itself: Myanmar. What follows are a bunch of incoherent ramblings concerning this enigmatic military playground.
So is it Burma, Myanmar or Pyi-daung-zu Myan-ma Naing-ngan-daw? In […]