A beer in Laos costs ten thousand kip. That sounds like a lot of money at first but not so much when you compare it to the price of a beer in Zimbabwe.

To get to Laos I had to fly through Bangkok. To get to Bangkok, I had to get to Madrid.
Thai Airways International fly direct from the Spanish Capital to her Thai counterpart. I wanted to spend a few nights in cold Madrid before heading off to the South East Asian sun.

Like most big cities, [...]

Schroedinger’s Fridge. It’s been examined before, but it’s still fun:Until the fridge is opened, whether the food has spoiled or not is indeterminate! The problem is that the wavefunction doesn’t collapse no matter how much we observe.

“Monsters are tragic beings; they are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy”: —Ishiro Honda, film director for Toho, most famous for creating Godzilla.

To say cinema has an influence on On The Other Side Of The Eye would be an extreme understatement. To list all of the films that are alluded to or inform On The Other Side Of The Eye would take volumes.To keep it manageable, here’s a short list of film…

Back during Dennis O’Neil’s run on the DC Comics title The Question, he always used to include a book each month under the heading “Recommended Reading” which ranged from philosophy to crime fiction and other books.These weren’t essential to understand…

One of my favorite films is Sanjuro, particularly the near final lines after Toshiro Mifune’s character has defeated his enemy, Muroto, one of the corrupt swordsmen of the film, who forces a reluctant Sanjuro to a final duel. Sanjuro kills his adversa…

One day some students asked a venerated buddhist monk:”Master, when you die, what will happen to you?”"I will go to hell,” the elder monk replied matter-of-factly.”Go to hell? How can you say such a thing? You’ve led such a pure life!” the s…

This week the Twin Cities had a chance to say goodbye to the legendary Carolyn Bye after 14 years as the head of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. An amazing intelligence and spirt, Carolyn was an invaluable advocate and ally in building the arts…