As the saying goes, there’s always more than one way to skin a cat. In this instance, it’s playing a flute. This street musician generates air by blowing through his nose. I guess it’s one way to keep people from borrowing your instrument.
It’s the dry season in Bandung – you can tell by the heat. Since the beginning of May we’ve had many more days where the daytime temperature, rather than hitting the high 80s, has well exceeded 90-degrees. At night, the muggy air in my bedroom never drops below 80. It’s hard to tell that it’s [...]
Advertising for new Hawaii Five-O episodes, broadcast on the AXN cable television network: “The hot bods, in the hot rods! Hawaii Five-O…” Television promotion writers are apparently the same around the world.
One of the great things about living overseas is that you’re sometimes forced to move out of your comfort zone. That’s actually a good thing – as the post-modernist French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once said, “To open our eyes to the absurdity of our own customs is the charm and benefit of travel.” By nature [...]
I had my name up in lights today. I’ve been fortunate during my career to have accomplished things I never dreamed possible when I started in broadcasting as a young kid back in 1974 (every time I say that I feel really old). I anchored NPR newscasts from London during the first Gulf War (the [...]
Our Krakatau trip took us close to Ujung Kulon, a national park on the southwestern edge of Java. It was the first proposed national park in Indonesia. Technically, the islands that make up Krakatau are part of the park. But Ujung Kulon is best known for its largest section on the mainland, where the rhinos [...]