Near Mui Ne are areas of red and white dunes rising dramatically out of the countryside. I haven’t researched how they were formed, but they were fun to explore. At Fairy Spring we followed an ankle-deep stream for kilometers, red dunes and eroded features on one side contrasting with green jungle on the other.
Read More Desert microenvironmentsThis is the harbour in Mui Ne where thousands of boats bring in the bounty of the sea. At night you can see lights strung out on the horizon, like stars fallen from the sky: squid fishers. They eat land creatures too – crocodile is popular.
Read More Fishing village and marketMui Ne is a mellow beach town on the South China Sea about 4-5 hours from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). We hired a driver for a 3am night flight out of the city to avoid traffic, and spent the first night at Novella resort, a more upscale option. We intended to stay just 1 […]
Read More Vietnam Beach SceneThe food in this city is mouthwateringly flavorful, abundant and cheap, with fresh ingredients sourced from the nearby Mekong delta. Take for instance this soup from a restaurant in District 8, with leeks, dill, lime, chili, cooked fish and tomatoes.
Read More Saigon cuisineMultitudes of bikes flowing in and out through each other like schools of fish. Somehow it works.
Read More The Great Motorcycle Hordes of SaigonI’ve been thinking about it for years, planning, saving, preparing – now it has arrived. 6 months of personal leave from work to devote to other things, travel and creative pursuits. No more alarms, no more commutes – for a while. Just writing, artwork, bike riding, hiking, gardening, reading… The good stuff. Like my DJ […]
Read More The DreamMore and more animals are starting to walk upright. What’s happening? Some kind of reality wave washed over everything. There are reports of chimpanzees who seem to have evolved, that they’ve learned how to use fire and are burning each other’s villages. Minds bent against it, trying to figure it out… Things have changed and […]
Read More Naja Naja KaouthiaThe perfect Canadian winter day: -9 and sunny, hockey, beer. Pick-up hockey with friends at a neighborhood rink in Ottawa. Skating on the Rideau Canal during Winterlude. Beer at the WinterBrewed craft beer festival. We ended up at a pub showing an NHL game and enjoyed pints with a plate of poutine.
Read More CanadianaI have a flash fiction story in the latest edition of Zygote In My Coffee titled ‘Industrial Accidents’: http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/100s/issue140industrialacciden.html An exploration of puberty as mutation… “I remember some of my contemporaries who mutated early, sex hairs sprouting all over their bodies, muscles bubbling up from bones that might grow an inch in one excruciating night. Limb […]
Read More Industrial AccidentsThe transcripts of Bern Hijkl’s recounted journeys by way of the Calculix are hard to reconcile. I had to remind myself that they were the product of controlled research, conducted by reputable scientists and overseen by Dr. LeVram himself. Bern describes scenes that to him are as real as any place, though their plot and […]
Read More This planet is being eaten
