They wouldn’t let me attend Public High School #70. It was the closest high school to my home in Jakarta, but the family I was staying with wouldn’t even send their own kids there, much less the 16 year-old American exchange student trusted to live with them. See, SMA (Indonesian for high school) 70 was […]
AfSD™(ADVOCATE FOR SAVING DOGS™ and all living creatures) Phil~Anne~ South Africa’s lions once again under threat. In 2007 the then Minister of Environment, Marthinus van Schalk Wyk, created such a lame piece of legislation that today, on appeal by the Association of Predator Breeders, it has been over-turned by a High-Court judge. The result, canned […]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. People think that this amendment allows them to say anything […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what the world would have been like if we had the Internet in the 60’s. We only had books, newspapers, magazines and network TV. I envy the youth of today. You have so many more tools to change your world. Today with all the information available at our […]
I created a photo album “Heroes”. Some I know personally, some I know from MySpace, some I know only by what they have written or what they have accomplished. They are an eclectic group of people. I will be adding more and more to this album. Some I have already put in a similar album […]
Usually, food tastes better when you overpay for it. When you go to a sporting event, for example, those $10 sausages taste incredible! Popcorn at the movie theatre taste far better than anything one could make at home, and its not just because of that unknown oily stuff they call butter either. It’s psychological. We’re […]
It’s a reggae ukulele Christmas everyone! Ho Ho Ho! This little ditty was written by my friend, Doctor Sparkles, who recently made a tutorial video about how to play that reggae strum on your uke (he’s also got a new CD coming out soon!) . I’ll make this vid a YouTube response to that one. […]
For those who aren’t familiar with what I do here on my blog, the “Tour d’Joko” is my ongoing series of travel video blogs. I had a little adventure today! I’m looking forward to heading to San Diego for the holidays, but I have to say, I Love Washington State! Even biking around in 40 […]
There is a FRIENDBURST QUIZ that kind of goes with this blog. You should take it first. Click this link to open in a new window. “That’s what I forgot!” she said, “The book I’m reading!” I looked up from my pages of the sci-fi novel I’m currently reading to look at the girl sitting […]
