ALRIGHT SO: this is the first of what will probably be a whole lot of midweek Pops, generally covering things more esoteric, obtuse, irrelevant, dull or self-obsessed than the subjects I'm generally covering, and really serving only to add to the giant pile of informational refuse that is the Internet.
But first: photos! Credit where credit's due - I'm a standard point-n-clicker if every there was one, so most of the great photos that have been taken so far have been Edie's, who has a great eye for a shot and is generally a far superior photographer/artist/person than me in every respect. Here are a few of our favourites that I haven't yet had an excuse to insert into the blog:
Okay, so you'll have to turn your monitor on its side - fucked if I can be bothered learning how to make it display the right way, right now, it's really goddamn hot here, you know, and I'm tired - but here in all its glory is Phanom Rung, the ancient Khmer temple atop an extinct volcano.
On the train to the Laotian border. Check out the size of those windows.
Okay, so this would only be notable in assessing how completely ridiculous my Indiana Jones delusions have become (a straw fedora? Really?) except for that moped in the back of the canoe, which they drove - drove, mind you, not pushed - into the middle of the Mekong, with water up to the rider's knees and the motor somehow not flooding with river scum, at which point German Mark and the Thai rider lifted it into the canoe and took it to the mainland. How lame is the entire rest of the world? This is in Si Phan Dom, Laos.
From now on there will be a steady, if irregular, flow of photos to the Flickr site that I've just set up right now, literally right now as you were sitting here reading this. It's here:
You're welcome.
Lachie
