I notice the wildlife before the people. Between the hoards of holy cows and scavengers of the sky, there’s fierce competition for edible waste. I’m…
When I arrived at his dilapidated treehouse, I complimented Michael on the taxidermy snake he had draped on his kitchen window sill. I found comfort…
It’s a look of adjustment. Coloured people have felt it since the ancient time, since the long, long ago when the sun stopped shining where…
We smiled and thrashed around in the pool because they told us to. We yelled out “Schoolies!” with our drinks in the air because they…
It’s been a whole year now of living with the spicy cough, and though in Australia we’ve been fairly bloody lucky to escape the brunt…
This is a tale of how five young boys took on the corporate giants, putting the no-questions-asked refund policy of Wal-Mart to the ultimate test….
I will never forget the screams of those floating Germans. There I was, belly up on a scorching tube, drifting down the guts of the…
In the North of India, lost somewhere in the heart of Rajasthan, near a tiny town with a single dirt road, I went looking for…
I can’t even show you the CD. Why? Because I threw that five-track motherfucker straight into the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok’s crystal clear aquatic thoroughfare….
My third evening in the Islamic Republic of Iran lands me in an underground music gig in a hip café-cum-alcohol-free-bar in the capital, Tehran, where…
“Prost!” Our steins clunk; beer spills over the side and splashes onto my cheap 50-euro dirndl — but I’m too sloppy to notice. It’s Oktoberfest…
Staring down the shot glass of yet another pre-10am mezcal, I push any thoughts of What about my life productivity? aside and focus on what’s happening…
