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Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid
If you've been to a mainstream music festival in the last decade, chances are you've been among the crowd when the sun started to set, and a couple of DJs took the stage (along with a couple of singers, and a sitar player) and the music started up, and the ... -
Stranger in a Strange Land
Moving to a foreign country, as I was fast discovering, is a lot like being the new kid in high school. You aren’t familiar with the rules, don’t know the lingo and can never seem to locate your homeroom. Worse, you won’t ask for directions or ... -
Inside the Cathedral of Junk
The Cathedral of Junk is what you get when you combine bicycles, street signs in three languages, weathervanes, televisions, carabiners, Christmas lights, shopping carts, minikegs, and 60 tons of everything under the sun. It’s the kind of place that a ... -
A Little Something for Everyone
The largest daily flea market in the world – the words conjure an image of a dusty third-world souk crammed with livestock and hagglers, baking under the tropical sun. The only part of this image that’s truly accurate is the tropical sun (and the ...
