I’ve been messing around a lot with Adobe Illustrator. It’s an incredibly irritating piece of software if you’ve grown up using nothing but Adobe Photoshop – everything is counter-intuitive! What does that symbol even mean? Why can’t I just combine the two things, why is this so hard! But I’ve passed over some kind […]
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“Last Christmas” or Cambodia’s Inexplicable Favorite Christmas Song
It’s the holidays, and I want to talk to you about a very, very annoying Christmas song, one that nevertheless has a special, perverse place in my heart thanks to my time in Cambodia. It’s called “Last Christmas,” and was created by those British songster scamps “Wham,” who you’ve probably never heard of outside of […]
Christmas in Cambodia: Vintage 2010
Christmas in Cambodia 2010 I did a photo-essay on Christmas in Cambodia last year and had a rather fabulous time doing it. The melancholy-expat blues have whomped over over the head this year and my heart wasn’t quite as in it in 2011, but hoping to get a few decent shots tonight and tomorrow to […]
Another Christmas in Cambodia, Insert Dead Kennedy’s Humor Here
My second Christmas in Cambodia is coming up in a few days. I thought I’d be going home for the holidays this year, but other responsibilities intervened, and now I’m spending another December 25th in Phnom Penh. Christmas is just a day, and furthermore, a religous holiday celebrating a religious belief I don’t adhere to – […]