Author: Mark Egge

It looks like I may actually leave Bangkok one of these days. According to the original plan, I would have already been in India by now… rather than waiting outside the Indian Embassy in Bangkok. Oh well. These things take time. In two hours, I’ll have my Indian visa. In 20 hours, I’ll fly out. […]

New drink of choice: Coke & RedBull. The RedBull here in Thailand (the original, before some brilliant Austrian tourist came to Thailand and said “gee, this would be really good, if it was carbonated” and then introduced it to the West with carbonation and flying competitions…) isn’t carbonated, and consequently it tastes a lot like… […]

Enjoy your -6 degree weather. But hey– at least it’s going to warm up into the single digits today. A high of 7 degrees! In the mean time, I’ll keep working on my tan. 82 today, 86 on Friday, and 90 by Saturday. Heh. Actually, I’m jealous of your snow and cold, but I’m going […]

It becomes an obsession. Becomes an obsession. An Obsession. Obsession. Narrated in a deep and raspy voice, haggard almost:—How did I end up here, living in the future? I’ve said this before: maybe a dozen times to some. And yet the profundity– the gravity of the sensation grows every time I step outside of my […]

It happens every once in a while that, listing to a song I’ve heard a hundred times, I’ll suddenly be struck by it profundity. Cake’s Tougher Than It Is, for example. The chorus (some people like to make life / a little tougher than it is / some people like to make / liiife / […]