3:30 PM it could have been – we check out the accommodations at the Matahari Terbit a couple of buildings south of the Aston. The Aston is swank alright, but with nearly two weeks to go in Bali our money could be better spent.  Not to mention that for $50/night …

Serves 4 as a meal, up to 8 for starters 
10 cups light, clear chicken stock
2 inch piece of ginger, crushed
1 star anise pod* It’s really good in here, but optional
1 tablespoon salt
1 teaspoon Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce**
4 chicken breasts, boneless & skinless  
*Easy to find if you can find an …

First there’d been the encyclopedia of foods pregnant women could not ingest at the risk of delivering stillborns or flipper babies. Then came the forbidden edibles that would kill your children in their highchairs. No peanuts from conception until year-two of a baby’s life?

Picture Miami with a little Chinatown every few blocks and lots of American stores. If you went to South Beach on a record hot summer day, walked up Lincoln St, ate bowls of Mee Hoon on Washington instead of Media Noche sandwiches, bought film and Banana Republic cashmere wife-beaters back on Lincoln, then down Ocean Drive to look at tan chicks in tiny skirts you will have experienced Singapore

I’ve already listened to The Beatles.

Hey all you 32 Million Americans who’ve worked really hard, needed health insurance for you or your family, couldn’t afford it but now can…well, screw you! I hope you get killed by buses, bisons, or any other American made tragedy which gets you off my fucking tax tab.

Why is my bum so crazy?

What a douche! But as the largest douche bag on board, I thanked everyone humbly and took a seat with my back against the driver’s cockpit. It was a splintery board on a metal storage bin, comfortable as a dollhouse hassock studded with scorpions. But it was a seat and I was grateful and completely ashamed to have it.

Ever have a slice of ham that was so mind-meltingly delicious that you wanted to kill any other guy that ever looked at it? To tie it to a barber’s chair and lock it up in the basement so it would always be yours and yours alone? To tear sheets …

All you Conway District voters really need to listen to this man.
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