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this is the final chapter of the saigon trip. i hope you enjoy it as much as the other two chapters. i want to thank all of you for reading. i appreciate it very much.

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part 3

we had to get a cab to the nearest boq. way too hung over, plus …

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part 2

the hotel we decided upon was the caravelle. the place where all the reporters stayed while in saigon. plus, we had heard the ladies up on the roof were amazing. the only trouble is they threw us out. we weren't officers or reporters. …

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long ago in another lifetime i got to spend some time in downtown saigon, south vietnam. those fun trips were courtesy of uncle sam and you the american tax payer. you folks and myself included are still paying for those excursions in many ways. this is a true story …

singin and playin'

after an eight month absence from playing live my friend, john harrelson, took to the stage again last night at rhino records in claremont, ca. it was all things considered an amazing set of acoustical music. amazing because john hasn't been feeling very well the past …

china tour part 5

from guilin we went to shanghai. shanghai is an amazing place. it looks like new york city with all it's sky scrappers. western modern, asian old, euroland old, and asian new all rolled up into one place. interesting. more hot babes as well. we went to the shanghai …

china tour part 4

before i get going again, the food on the planes in china was just god awful. along with the same crappy food over and over again we saw the same crappy videos over and over. the movies were the worse crap ever made. some seemed like they were made just for the …

china tour part 3

i think beijing has been more or less covered. one more thing about beer before we move to xian. beer was the drink of the day in china. lunch and dinner. one free one with each meal and you could buy more. $1 for a big bottle and most of the beers were ok. just …

china tour part 2

beijing is a great place. very clean and nice folks but a traffic nightmare. the whole damn country is a traffic nightmare. it reminded me of saigon at times. chinese drive worse than vietnamese in saigon or mexicans in mexico. just goddamn amazing. you could not …

china tour part 1

back in 2004 g/f and i went to mainland china. at the time just your typical 12 day tour. i've never blogged about it before other than a quick something here or there. i have nothing else going on in my head at the moment, blog wise and other wise as well. just the …

brother, can you spare me some daylight?

ok. it's that time of year again. the clocks either lose us some time or gain us some time. either way we lose. yahoo reported yesterday that the daylight saving time deal is stupid and useless. this came from a big study by the university of indiana. yeah, ok …

wishful thinking

lots of wishful thinking on my part over the years on lots of different stuff. anything from the chance meeting of say, heidi klum, where we immediately fall into to bed and live happily ever after. or perhaps, the twice weekly i'm going to be the next california …

oscar night

yeah, oscar night, it's tonight. it ain't what it used to be. then of course just what the hell is? i don't go to movies anymore. the whole experience is just annoying these days on all sorts of levels. i buy em instead. cheap. watch em at home. very seldom …

some reading

i was going to post something i wrote last night. however, it is just more yammering and repeating myself concerning some of my recent stuff. so i figured if i was going to repeat myself i might as well repeat something with some history going for it and something a …

gentlemen, the marines are drafting this month 2 of 2

it was a sad farewell. parents hugging kids. girlfriends crying. parents crying. young men trying not to cry. it was a sea of misery. then it came time to board the buses for the trip to downtown l.a. a long silent ride in the early morning darkness. private …

gentlemen, the marines are drfting this month 1 of 2

it had already been a bad morning. a very bad morning. however, those seven words sent an electric shock through the hundred plus or so odd souls in the downtown los angeles army induction center, circa dec 1969. things were bad but they were just about to go …

SoCal Madness, the Final Chapter

the two men in the car full of glass, dead bodies and blood hadn't said a word until they stopped. 'what the fuck?' 'no shit, what the fuck? we're covered with blood and no windshield is gonna get us pulled over in a heart beat.' 'yeah. ok. i was gonna suggest we …

SoCal Madness, part 3

several days later the the car and dead body were finally found when someone passing by noticed a strong odor emanating from the parked car. the death of the asshole barely made a blip on the tv or radio news. though it did manage to grab a few inches of space in the …

sex and/or theatre(?) the coda

this is it the long awaited conclusion to this old sad tale of mis-spent youth. oddly just a short demented portion of said youth. i think it might be a bit anti-climatic at this point but, whatever, it must be done and finished. for whatever reasons, if nothing more …

sex and/or theatre(?) part 4 or the chocolate bomb

the chocolate bomb was an early 60's corvair convertible. 4 cylinders of mush power with a nice chevy slip and slide auto tranny. but best of all was the color, milk chocolate brown. hence it's name.

it was a friend of mine mother's car. the same family from …

sex and/or theatre(?) part 3

ok. just because somebody out there is probably wondering just what happened to blondie and plain jane after the totally unfortunate previous sordid evening's misadventure. can an evening be possessive? drifting already. screw it.

no, the ladies did not …