January 2012
6 posts
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November 2011
1 post
October 2011
5 posts
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Garrett Oliver thinks Vietnam makes the worst beer...
Gothamist: What's the worst beer out there?
Garrett Oliver: The worst beer out there?
Gothamist: If you could wave your hand and make one beer disappear from the face of the planet?
Garrett Oliver: That's an interesting question. I had a Vietnamese beer a few years ago that was called Saigon and it was just, it was really, really ghastly. I didn't remember—though I do realize that beers existed that still tasted quite that bad—it reminded me of one that I had in East Germany in the mid-1980s, when there was an East Berlin. I drank a beer when I spent a day in East Berlin, and I thought, "Boy, Communism is certainly bad but I didn't know it was so bad that it could even make Germans produce terrible beer." And it had. I don't know whether Vietnam is still considered particularly Communist, but apparently it hasn't done anything to their beer industry anyway.
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
brocavore →
Added to the list of words I never want to see/hear/read again, courtesy of the New York Times, brocavore.
June 2011
6 posts
I just removed an industrial-sized staple-gun staple from Jon’s floorboards with my toe. OUUUUUCH! :(
3 tags
May 2011
5 posts
Money is too valuable to waste...
Did you know the average monthly salary in Vietnam is only $5 more than the cost of that chicken wire basket? They still use those baskets here. Except the ones in Vietnam, unlike the shabby vintage one pictured below, can hold a few hundred pounds of pottery and cost about a 100th of the price.
museumofusefulthings:
How cool is that? Its a Vintage Steel Dump Cart on Wheels....
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
2 posts
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“Journalism is not a career suitable for Asian women, a cultural studies...”
– Prof Dr Tran Ngoc Them of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Best Picture 2011
At tonight’s Oscar-themed pub quiz, the Electric Bananas took home first prize in the free beer round. The challenge: create your own Best-Picture-Oscar-winning-film, include a title and a brief synopsis of the film. Being overachievers, we took this challenge a step further.
Beauty and the Beastiality
written by Nicholas Sparks
directed by Sam Mendes
starring Justin Bieber and Sea...
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
7 posts
The City That Never Sleeps In →
My friends, Tabitha and Nathan, write my favorite blog about Hanoi. They also offered an explanation for the Tet Monsters, which it turns out are offerings to the Kitchen God.
December 2010
11 posts
