10/23/09Good Porning, VietnamFirst thing we noticed upon arriving in Ho Chi Minh City: No one calls it Ho Chi Minh City. It’s Saigon, no matter what the commies tried to change it to in 1976. (So there. The war wasn’t pointless after all.) The people in the city, many of whom fled the country during the communist takeover—then returned—refuse to give Uncle Ho the credit for... Posted at 05:02 PM in Push | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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10/09/09Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Cambodia
1. An alarming number of Cambodian babies are born with scars that look like bullet holes. It’s generally accepted that these babies are reincarnated victims of the Khmer Rouge. Posted at 05:34 PM in Push | Permalink | Comments (0) |
The continuing adventures of The Closer, aka Chicago's deputy dining editor and humor columnist Jeff Ruby. After chronicling his wife's pregnancy and eventual delivery on a Hyde Park floor in gory detail, Ruby fast-forwards a year to his paternity leave, during which his threesome inexplicably decided to travel 10,000 miles away. Again, Push is more slog than blog, since the events aren't happening in real time, but rather a flashback to three people fumbling their way from the jungles of Vietnam to a strange island off the Great Barrier Reef seemingly populated only by Japanese schoolgirls to the sickest bathroom in Thailand. And again, nothing is omitted.
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