Hold your judgement. If you are told ‘they are all this’ or ‘they do this’ or ‘their opinions are these’, withhold your judgement until all the facts are upon you. Because that land they call ‘India’ goes by a thousand names and is populated by millions, and if you think you have found two men [...]
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USA! USA! USA!
Posted in Drink, Parties, Festivals, and Holidays, Restaurants, Society and Culture, Travel, tagged viking.American food, viking.beer, viking.England, viking.gastropolitics, viking.London, viking.opinions, viking.USA on Saturday, July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One More for the Road: The Tenrec
Posted in Art, Drawings, Politics, Society and Culture, tagged viking.museums and display, viking.nature and geology, viking.sketches on Friday, July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and completely lose respect for proponents of Intelligent Design theory.
I found this disgusting little monster stuffed and safely caged behind class at the charmingly out-of-date Horniman Museum the other day. I tried my best to draw it accurately because I thought it was so weird. It is called [...]
Viking Five: Things I Miss About Japan
Posted in Food, Society and Culture, Travel, Viking Five, tagged viking.Japan, viking.meibutsu, viking.opinions on Monday, June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Though I spent almost all of high school and college consistently dreaming about moving to Japan, the specifics of my Japanophilia have changed over time. At first, I was enthralled by the general exotica of Japan as well as nerdy-yet-awesome pop cultural imports like J-pop, Super Nintendo RPGs, Pocky, and anime – I never did [...]
I Met an English Guy in a Pub Last Week
Posted in Drink, Society and Culture, tagged viking.beer, viking.gastropolitics on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
He spotted me writing down notes on my ale and came over to introduce himself.
He seemed excited to find a young American interested in British real ale.
His son-in-law is American, and he had been to America several times. We talked about American beer, and he said that the Americans have “mastered” the IPA.
After that he [...]
