A Monkish Day, Luang Prabang, Laos
We woke at 5 a.m. yesterday morning to join others in Luang Prabang offering alms of sticky rice to the …
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Working the Mekong, Laos
We took a two hour motorized long-boat ride up the Mekong this morning. The first destination was an enormous cave …
Luang Prabang, Laos
Out of the ghastly big city of Bangkok to the sweet, old river-town of Louang Phrabang where the ‘low’ Lao …
Myanmar — Working Its Way from the Darkness
Burma, possibly becoming Myanmar. Rangoon, returned to being Yangon. Bagan, a countryside of ten thousand temples trying to imagine and …
Away on Assignment
I’ll be on a 5 week trip to South East Asia — Burma, Thailand. Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, north and …
Did Gifted Generals Win the War?
Andrew Bacevich, former colonel in the US Army, and now professor of International Relations at Boston University reviews two books …
The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …
Literary Festival in Rangoon
I would think that many, especially the young, would be dizzy with excitement in the ‘new’ Burma/Myanmar. After decades of …
Zero Dark Thirty: Normalizing Torture
I have posted previously that after a thorough examination of reviews and opinions about Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, I …