The greater Philadelphia area has as many Vietnamese/SE Asian (so where's my Lee's sandwich shop already?!?!*drool*) move in as Phoenix has Mexicans move in each year. So Senor Duong fell victim to the land of the cheesesteak and the soft pretzel. Abandoned. But it still tells a story. All pictures are links to 1024 size for ease of viewing. His English is very interesting as he tells his tale of woe, crisis and confusion.

Why do I see so many written-on vehicles? My wife was even half-related to someone that did this....

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Maybe this little tiny baby Krishna will cheer me up:



.....let's see.... marginally. I think if I layer on top of it the fact that Ernest Borgnine is still alive. He was in:

McHale's Navy
Demetruis and the Gladiators
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Vikings (HAIL RAGANAR!)
Barabbas
Emperor of the North
Escape from New York
and many episodes of Spongebob

People croak every day - he was awesome in Bad Day before I was born.

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For Goof, Lellebelle, Tom Sutpen, Sebastian and everybody who's been there & done that. Gavin Bryars did this 30 years ago and then about ~>decade or so ago again where he admittedly took advantage of the new CD format to allow him to make thet piece as long as possible. Plus his added cachet as a more prominent composer got him a great venue - a giant empty water tank, and it's commensurate sonic-sinking-ship ambience (in France) which, in fact, adds je ne sais quoi .



Frig- listen to it - it's heavenly - despite it's mournful subject matter.

Go buy it - own it - support the quintessential oddball artist.

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