i am a rogue state

yo. i know it's been a long time. don't be mad. we've been very busy. we're not on the beach anymore, lazing about with coconuts and tough decisions like whether to have a big beer or a small beer. no no no. we are learning. and now we will teach you the fruits of our knowledge. first of all, i have left the group to spend more time in thailand with my amazing friends and to get a lot of work done (you know i can't stop working). mari and tara went off to cambodia while i worked on a few things up for http://www.wedia.tv/ (check it out!) and got serious with the thai language. but mostly i chilled out. what? me?

first mystery solved: the thai people put the shirts on the dogs because they are worried about them getting cold. cause it's really cold in chiang mai (i guess). thai people are the sweetest on earth.

next mystery solved: gangkeowan or green curry. how does one cook green curry thai style, you may ask yourself? it's not as hard as you think, kids. as you can see. perhaps i will make it for you when i return. but you have to be nice. cause it's real good.


so before i became a rogue state, we all hung out in chiang mai for a few more days. we made even more friends, learned more about the food and now lucy and i plan to build a motorbike/food cart hybrid when i get back to nyc. we're quitting whatever jobs we have and we will now sell delicious thai food on the street for mad cheap. don't worry. we'll get freelancers insurance. and you'll eat kway theow and tom kha gai. so don't hate.

see how happy we are on our friend nid's bike?
later that day, nid took lucy and i to get our hair done. the ladyboys turned me into a character from knot's landing. they had a lot of fun with the curling iron. and hairspray. then lucy and i bought jeans. why? because we thought bringing jeans was a bad idea. too heavy. too long to dry. what are we? stinky almost hippie people? no we use the laundromat. so we bought some jeans. then we wore them to bangkok. we visited the royal palace, home of the emerald buddha and many beautiful ceramic tiles, statues, buddhist temples and a small scale replica of angkor wat. very touristy but highly recommended. observe the finer details:





















finally, after almost a month in thailand, we checked out a muy thai match. the stadium was darkened all around the ring. a jillion thai peple were signaling their bets and yelling. the boxers get into the ring, each one performing a dance to pay respect to their art, their teachers and each other. then they fight. we saw two knockouts that night, the first one in the first round. it's fierce. a muy thai fighters knee can deliver about 1600 pounds of force into his opponent's ribs. that's crazy times, kids. crazy times. i apologize for the bad pictures but i was really into it and couldn't deal with a camera. use your imagination: blood, posturing, skills, punches and kicks and knees and elbows. you got it.




















look! thai graffiti! mmmhmmm. also, tiny shrines. mmmhmm.






now i leave you with this image of the state of maine t-shirt that i found in a second had store in chinag mai. i cried a little bit. thinking of all you people freezing in my homeland. sorry about that. lovin you forever, corey.