{"id":816,"date":"2012-01-11T06:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=816"},"modified":"2012-01-11T06:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:31:26","slug":"the-black-crows-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2012\/01\/11\/the-black-crows-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Crow&#8217;s Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Buried deep in this-here watermelon remainder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ravens vs. Watermelon\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/6678915339\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lovin&#8217; it! But then, who doesn&#8217;t love watermelon?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, here&#8217;s some better footage of the nightly Lumphini aerobics sessions. Check that crazy old white fucker gettin&#8217; <em>down<\/em>. Sumbitch isn&#8217;t careful, he&#8217;s gonna wind up one of the <em>Solid Gold<\/em> Dancers!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lumphini Aerobics\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/6679104309\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Found a new source for some <em>ace<\/em> longan action. Some of the fruits are so difficult to open, one&#8217;d almost wanna use a nutcracker. But they&#8217;re damned good all the same, and much more inexpensive than other vendors&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also to-day, went to one of the big humongo-malls to purchase a cleaver with which to open my own coconuts (had been using my little fold-up knife, with my water bottle as a hammer)&#8230;and they&#8217;re <em>still<\/em> playing Christmas songs! Me, I&#8217;m not complaining.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Met a couple of British dudes. One a fellow juggler who&#8217;d seen me juggling, and showed me his impressive skillz. He&#8217;s looking into living here permanently and teaching English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other on the river taxi; he saw my backpack&#8217;s nametag, asked where I&#8217;m from, and when I told him, proceeded to ask a bunch of questions about Kurt Cobain whilst telling me of his misfortune getting taken in by Bangkok scammers (which event, he hopes, will bring him good karma).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently I&#8217;m the second-ever fruitarian to stay at this hostel in its six-year existence. The previous one, an Italian, didn&#8217;t eat <em>any <\/em>vegetables, however; and he didn&#8217;t drink any water save coconut water (came to the right place for that, all right!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No more real news, except for the best news of all, which is my having come to a realisation; to wit, the best thing about Bangkok: no leaf-blowers!! Instead, the city employs an army of mega-broom wielding hipsters to keep the pathways spic-and-span.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bet you can&#8217;t even recall what it&#8217;s like to live in a land without leaf-blowers? I know I sure couldn&#8217;t; now, it&#8217;s all coming back to me. Perhaps I&#8217;m turning into a cranky old geezerman. But I prefer to think that peeps of <em>all<\/em> ages can agree that leaf blowers are nothing less than outright Satanic. Viva La Mega-Broom!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sweepers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-824\" title=\"sweepers\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sweepers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sweepers.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sweepers-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sweepers-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried deep in this-here watermelon remainder. Lovin&#8217; it! But then, who doesn&#8217;t love watermelon? Meanwhile, here&#8217;s some better footage of the nightly Lumphini aerobics sessions. Check that crazy old white fucker gettin&#8217; down. 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