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The Journal of a Raucous Expat Living in Rural Thailand

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Just another quick vid update from my perch, my loft perch here in crisp morning northern Thailand in my Browning hunting jacket. I feel like I would be remiss in not mentioning Elon Musk’s supercar—or hypercar, whatever—demonstration of a short-term flying car. What I thought at first is that when you cross a rocket company…

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You’re seeing the AI version come to life—we’re finally kicking off the real work. The bottom floor gets painted that green. The video starts with flames shooting out from the truck, and that’s the detail she locked in for the motorcycle and truck scene. We’ll need two stages of scaffolding to handle the purple up…

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Good morning from a cloudless blue sky and a crispy morning in northeastern Thailand. Mid-October means the rainy season has ended, just like clockwork, and now we’re easing into the cool season for a few months. Come December and January, it actually gets pretty damn cool in the evenings. I’m wearing my Browning light hunting…

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I’ve had this idea rattling around in my head since I was a teenager growing up in a fundamentalist Baptist born-again little church and its school. For some reason I just couldn’t shake it. I tried to be a good boy, respectful to everyone including my parents, and I didn’t go out and get into…

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This one requires a bit of an interlude or introduction. The video and transcript below are all about making the food—the chicken fried steak—but not much on how you do a proper gravy or sauce. That’s what I have to address here to fill in some blanks. You need a proper gravy or sauce, and…

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