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Your family contacted our staff and you scheduled to be our newest patient! Welcome to the Hyperion Hills Hospital! (formerly the Hyperion Tavern) We've already confirmed with your family that you qualify for an expense free stay at Hyperion Hills .
Admit yourself to our New Patients Night! Monday October 26th. It's a fun way get oriented to our facilities. It's free to you and your family!!
Here's a run down of the evening!
7pm Proper Tour
Our top staff members will escort
small groups on an orientation
tour of our grounds.
8pm Lovely Films
Gather around everyone,
it's movie time! A little
taste of life as a patient
at Hyperion Hills.
9pm New Friends
The current patients at
Hyperion Hills Hospital
can't wait to meet you!
They put together a little
welcoming show for you
and your family.
Midnight Photo Opps
A little meet and greet
after party! Perfect time to
snap some last photos
of you and your family!
We suggest you arrive around 7:30 to get the full experience of the evening. We'll have plenty of intermissions and candy!
Welcome to your new home!
Sincerely,
All of us on the staff of Hyperion Hills Hospital
and Home for the Criminally Deranged:
Denver Smith
Meghan Parks
Ed Galvez
Jefferey J. Nowicki
Val Myers
A few of our current patients whom you'll see are free to roam around our campus:
Patty Courtland
Sean Hart
Ed Salazar
Erik Tait
Charlie Watkins
Matt Hanley
Emerson Dameron
Finally, a list of current patients you'll see during the Welcome Show:
hosted by: George Earth and Beau Brookes. with JP Houston and Alex on drums!
Mark Wenzel
Marisol Medina
Count Smokula
Matt Blitz
Jim Coughlin
The Walsh Bros
Adam Shenkman
Jason Nash
Scot Nery
DJ Doug Pound
Josh Fadem
Krystal Gibbon
Bonnie Delight
This guy was supposed to be purple but I went a bit mad with the highlights so as luck would have it he is actually the only"pink" horror in the unit of pink horrors.
The Horrors / Heft-Reihe
The Spirit of War
cover: L. B. Cole
Star Publications / USA 1953
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Middle guy is a Bolt Of Change horror. Converted from the new Hobbit Goblin Town Goblins, with added Ghoul/WHFB Goblin heads and arms, and tons of green stuff.
Some shooting to the electoral publicity during the last elections for the municipality in Florence...
Original shot taken with a Minolta Auotpak 500 on Kodak Gold 200 asa expired 126 film cartridge. Some post processing.
The church of the holy Trinity of the minorits in Vienna
8 Vienna, Alserstraße 17
History
The Minorit order was founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1209 and is as the oldest branch of the Seraphic Order the guardian of the Franciscan sanctuaries in Assisi and Padua. Even during the lifetime of St. Francis, the Friars Minor in 1224 by Margrave Leopold VI, the Glorious, were summoned to Vienna, where they in 1247 founded monastery and church of the Holy Cross. It is the Minoritenkirche (Minorits church) near the Hofburg Imperial Palace on the Minoritenplatz. It is as beautiful, Gothic building a landmark of the city. From 1559 to 1620, the Minoritenkirche was used in part by Protestant preachers. 1748, the foundation stone was laid for a new building of the monastery in the city, but on 21th November in 1783 befell the monastery the abolition decree of Emperor Joseph II, the church was closed, demolished the monastery and the Franciscans on imperial order in 1784 moved into the monastery of the Trinitarians on the Alser road. There, they took over the pastoral care at the General Hospital and later also the by the Emperor Joseph II in 1783 Alservorstadt (suburb) built parish. The Order of Friars Minor is the second oldest in Vienna and they have been working here 760 years without interruption.
Church and Monastery
Popularly the church is know as "Alser Church", before it was also called "to The White Spaniards". Thus, the Trinitarians were meant in contrast to the neighboring Black Spaniards. Those were an order to the salvation of captived Christians, which was summoned from Spain via Lviv to Vienna. Leopold l gave in 1688 the Trinitarians permission "to choose a comfortable place to a church and a monastery outside the city". After the friars had acquired the grounds, arised initially a modest chapel with the altarpiece of the Holy Trinity. This original chapel is still used as a sacristy. Also the first altarpiece is kept by the Franciscans. It now hangs in the "Neunkirchner" library. 1689, the chapel was consecrated and the first Holy Sacrifices of the Mass by the bishops Count of Trautsohn and Count of Kollonitsch celebrated. As the chapel soon did not provide enough space for the numerous attended church services, it was expanded to a small church. This church had three altars and a wooden tower with two bells. Meanwhile the friars were also occupied with the plan to build a monastery. The foundation stone laid Bishop Count Trautsohn in 1690. This flat stone has got on the upper side a cross-shaped recess in which cavity a cross of ore is cast. The foundation stone of the monastery is located near the Cardinal stairs, so of the large staircase in the cloister next to the confessional. 1691 the Trinitarians solemnly moved into the new monastery, which was completed in 1694 for the most part. Now the Trinitarians proceeded to build the present Alser church Alser. 1695 Emperor Leopold I. laid with great pomp the foundation stone. In 1702 the church together with the towers and the beautiful facade was completed. The Trinitarians had served 95 years (1688-1783) in honor of the Holy Trinity in Vienna. On 21th November 1783, Emperor Joseph II disposed the abolition of the order. Instead of the Trinitarians were on 1st May 1784 the Franciscans from their monastery in the inner city summoned here. They transferred their church utensils and vestments, three altars and the miraculous image of St. Anthony from the old Minoritenkirche. They also moved the rich archive and library of the monastery in the present parish Alservorstadt. This emerged on 20th April 1783 according to the by Emperor Joseph II taken new parish division. It comprised 130 houses during its formation. Today it counts about 500 houses and extends from the Florianigasse in the Josefstadt (8th district) to Währingerstraße on Alsergrund (9th district). Due to the many hospitals and the former poor and foundling hospital, the parish has currently the largest Matrikenarchiv (register book) of Europe. Until the Second World War, the Matrikenämter (register book offices) exercised the function of the registry offices (effective date 1.1. 1939). Each change of civil status was registered in the competent minister's office (Pfarramt). In the parish Alservorstadt there are especially birth and death registrations. This very day, these books are kept in the relevant Taufpfarre (baptism parish) for religious purposes.
Sights and monuments of the church
The church is a classic building of the early Baroque. The beautiful facade has two towers with high domed roofs. The interior is cruciform and vaulted by a dome, on both sides are longitudinal chapels. The Baroque facade is considered the oldest example of a concave shape in Vienna. So the main portal lies in the line of flight behind the towers. The facade is dominated by a Trinity group over the main portal also to the outside world showing to whom this church is consecrated. At the time of the Trinitarians was at this point a stone replica of the ears cross. The high altarpiece, a work of Joseph Ritter von Hempel from 1826, shows the Holy Trinity. The image above the tabernacle is made by Hans Veit from the year 1949 and is a copy of the famous Madonna of Cignani (1628-1719).
Noteworthy are mainly the altars in the aisles. On your left, the artistically valuable altar of Mary with the image of the "Immaculate Conception" of the Biedermeier painter Leopold Kuppelwieser (1796-1862) and a picture of St. Maximilian Kolbe from 1982.
The counterpart forms the Francis altar with the image "Stigmatization of the St. Francis of Assisi" 1746 painted by the Minorite Innocent Moscherosch. On both altars there are stylish wooden carved and gilded reliquary shrines in pyramid form containing the Gebeinpartikeln (skeleton particles) of Roman martyrs. In the aisles are also statues of the Saints John Nepomuk, Sebastian, Florian and Anthony of Padua.
In the first alcove on the right is the cross altar, which is also called "relics altar". In the sarcophagus-like refectory of black marble rest the remains of a Roman Katakombenmärtyrer (martyr of catacombs) named Viktor. These relics stem from the Zömeterium (coemeterium) of the St. Priscilla. The coronation of the altar constitutes the huge crucifix which is located since November 30, 1708 in the church and stems from the circle of the famous sculptor Veit Stoss (1445-1533). It was given here by the Duchess Elisabeth Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein after her husband, Earl Rabutin, General and commander in Transylvania, it had discovered in the device chamber of a Lutheran, formerly Catholic Church. This cross became well known in common parlance as Cross of ears and was highly revered because beside the plastic was located in the manner of an ear of corn braided palm branch which also gave occasion to the realm of legend. Answers to prayers and graces reinforced the pilgrimage influx and copies of this venerated Cross were set up in many churches. Only in the Josephine era the Cross of ears fell more and more into oblivion and the St. Anthony of Padua took after moving from the inner city to the Alser church the first place of worship. A detailed description of this Cross of ears is laid out in the Provincial Library .
The other side altars are on the right side the Sacred Heart altar with a Head-Christ-image and the St. John of Nepomuk altar with an image of St. Anne. In the longitudinal chapels of the left side are standing the altar of the Virgin Mother, the Joseph altar and the altar with the image of the Adoration of the Magi.
In a glassed niche in the Nepomuk altar stands a in the Trinitarians much revered image of Mary, the bust of the "weeping mother of God", a work of Spanish origin by Pedro de Mena (1628-1688). It dates from the years 1662/63 and falls both stylistically and in material from the familiar framework of in Austria existing Baroque sculptures. The bust is carved from mahogany and pine wood and painted extremely naturalistic. The existence of this sculpture, which was brought by the Trinitarians from Spain to Vienna, is not only as testimony of the manifold connection between Spain and Austria significant, but also because sculptures outside Spain of this artist are extremely rare. The "weeping Madonna" is highly revered by the faithful people. The Alser church is also famous for its relationship with two of the greatest Viennese composers: Here was on the 29th March 1827 the body of Ludwig van Beethoven consecrated. His death is in the local Sterbematrik (registered dying book) under the date 26th March 1827 with the words stated:
"Ludwig van Beethoven, unmarried composer (Tonsetzer), born in Bonn in the kingdom, 57 years old, died of dropsy, buried at 29 March at the God's acre of the village Waehring".
On 2nd September 1828 Schubert wrote a few weeks before his death for the bell consecration of this church the hymn "Faith, hope and love". Thereto remember two bronze reliefs of Tautenhayn that had the Vienna Schubertbund in honor of the Musicians at the church front in 1927/28 installed. Another treasure possesses the Alser Church in Schlösselgasse. Beside the left tower a small chapel is added. There stays still the second of seven once erected stations of the Cross. Built in 1639 by the chapter of St. Stephen by P. Corotus Mussaid SJ under Emperor Ferdinand II, they were a station of the way of the Cross leading from the St. Stephen's Church to Calvary. Priest P. Norbert Kalcher had the four-figures group in the years 1983/84 renovated. As last preserved document of the former Calvary, this station is a historical and Christian landmark of Vienna.
St. Anthony chapel and Anthony worship
Through the with simple stained glass from the life of St. Anthony decorated cloister - the right of the church door - you get to the Anthony Chapel with the by the people highly revered, holy image of the saint. The Vienna miraculous image of the great wonder-worker of Padua dates from the time of Emperor Ferdinand II. A commander of the emperor, Count Rambaldus Collalto, a native of Mantua, who was in the Austrian service, it has 1630 donated and brought from his native Italy to Vienna. When the Franciscans in 1784 were made by Joseph II to move to the repealed Trinitarian they took the picture of grace. It shows, in contrast to the usual representations, the saint not with the child Jesus in his arms but with book and lily. The cultic line of the image leads directly to the Paduan representation. Serious facial expression, peace and security characterize the painting that comes from the Baroque period, but already shows the distinctive features of the classical conception of art. The saint is crowned with a gold halo, which bears the inscription:. ."Sancte Antonio de Padua, ora pro nobis, Anno 1656". After the moving of the Franciscans from their city monastery the brought along rich silver altar with the miraculous image of St. Anthony was in a chapel erected. These first Anthony's Chapel in the Alser church emerged in the vault of a walled monastery portal. At this point now is situated the memorial of the Holy Maximilian Kolbe. The silver of the Anthony's altar had, among other gold and silver devices of the Church, in the course of the Napoleonic Wars to be delivered to the Mint and the altar obtained the figure as it shows now. A renovation of the sanctuary was made in 1825 by Joachim Landi, a Ehrenhofkaplan (Court of honour chaplain) who had for this purpose gathered from benefactors donations.
Since the devotees of St. Anthony more and more numerous pilgrimaged to the miraculous image of the saint and the small chapel was not capable to incorporate the visitors it was decided in 1928 to build a larger chapel. On 24th July was began with the work. The plan for the building comes from Hans Prutscher. The new Anthony's Chapel was on 11th November 1928 by Cardinal Friedrich Gustav PiffI, the Archbishop of Vienna, with great participation of the clergy and faithful people under the priest father Hyazinth Grimm consecrated. In 1956 the chapel was under the priest father Wolfgang Klein according to plans of architect Hans Petermair on the inside rebuilt and redesigned in order to achieve a harmonious and unified image in architecture and layout of the line. The architectural parts of the chapel were formed in red stone, the altar niche in Stukkolustro (stucco lustro) designed, the ceiling with a relief "Anthony and the people seeking help" provided, the altar new gilded. The stained glasses of the four windows of the chapel are representing the four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. 1980 was under the priest father Norbert Kalcher the chancel of the Antony's chapel transformed and renovated the whole Anthony's Chapel.
300 years ago at the old Minorites church the first Brotherhood of St. Anthony was established in Vienna and equipped with special indulgences. Many members of the imperial family belonged to it. Every year on the 13th June visited the Court the church to pay homage to St. Anthony. This already existing veneration of Anthony was the prerequisite for the special adoration which was established during the heyday of the Austrian Baroque and continues to this day in the faithful people. On the walls of the Anthony Chapel and the cloister about 4300 votive tablets are attached, donated by grateful people who gave the saint being heard their pleas. From early morning to late evening, Bittsuchende (pilgrims) come to the miraculous image of St. Anthony.
Father Maximilian Kolbe Memorial
Before the entrance into the Anthony Chapel there is a by Professor Ernst Degasperi designed sgraffito in black, white and red, it is the memorial for the 10th October 1982 by Pope John Paul II canonized Minorite father Maximilian Kolbe from Poland.
Father Maximilian Kolbe on 14th August 1941 in Auschwitz sacrificed himself for a family man and has gone to his death. This impressive and iconic work of art was made under the Priest father Albert Duke in 1972 and shows the martyrdom of our time in the parable of the Passion of Christ. Five emerging nails from the track system, an urn containing human ashes as well as a crown of thorns from the barbed wire of Auschwitz emphasize the exhortation to love against the horrors of our world. In addition to the worship of St. Anthony, more and more people seeking refuge come to the monument of St. Maximilian Kolbe.
Crypt
In the church to the left of the main entrance a few steps lead down to the crypt, which at the time served as a burial place for the Trinitarians and benefactors of the church. The crypt also contains the tombs of several high-ranking personalities from ancient times, such as the tomb of Count Carossa (died 1693), Princess Maria Leopoldine of Hohenzollern, the Count de Rabutin Boussy and other nobles. To 3 April 1782, 241 dead were buried under the church. Under the high altar in the crypt stands the Allerseelenaltar (All Soul's altar) with a Holy Trinity group of stone. Besides the religious function, the crypt of the parish Alservorstadt also had an important function as a refuge. Testimony of it give a series of wall drawings and inscriptions from wars of this and the last century. One of the most recent with pencil written inscriptions reads:
As the planes roared above we learned this vault praise! In Flakgebrüll (flak bellowing) and Bombennot (distress of bombs) we us hided here in front of death! 1.II.45 1943-45
At this protective function reminds the on the spot remaining air safety regulations. In addition, from this room a number of passages run out. One of them, which also in the second World War II was used, led to the General Hospital. Thus the ministry was possible in times of war, too. In 1973, the crypt was renovated under the minister P. Hilarius Breitinger and dedicated as the burial place of the Friars Minor.
Provincial Library
The Monastery of the Friars Minor is home to a very rich library. The original part of the so-called "Wiener Library" was brought here on the occasion of the transfer of the Friars Minor from the Inner City. The Franciscans stood ever since it can remembered primarily in the service of science and in close relationship with the university. Prior to the founding of the university in 1365 were Franciscans as editors of theology active. More than 50 Franciscans worked as professors at the University of Vienna. In 1621 was founded by the Franciscans an own religious high school from which emerged very deserved monks. Yet the storming of the monasteries, Emperor Joseph II and the relocation of the Friars Minor in the Alservorstadt put an end to this development. In favor of the pastoral work in the parish and the hospitals the scientific work of the Order had to drift into the background.
In 1969, this library was opened to the public for the first time. In addition to the "Wiener Library" was already the library of the convent of Neunkirchen (Lower Austria) brought here. Subsequently took place other exhibitions in the library area. The great order anniversary "750 years Franciscans in Austria" in 1974 was already the "Asparner library" in the Alservorstadt. 1977 was finally the library of Graz Mariahilf been brought here, too. The librarian father Landulf Honickel and the provincial and pastor father Clemens Breineder thus creating a central library of the Austrian Minoritenprovinz succeeded. The inventories include certificates and manuscripts of the four convents as well of church music of the 17th and 18th century.
From the autumn 2016 trip to Vietnam:
I’ll do my best to avoid channeling my inner Robin Williams here, though I did deplane in Saigon around 7:00 in the morning local time. So, this – and all subsequent sets – will be (almost) devoid of reference to hanging in Danang, a certain less-than-savory woman from the north (though, ironically, Hanoi Hannah just passed away in Saigon last Friday while I was still in the country), or other clichéd references to…Good Morning, Vietnam.
This particular trip (my first to VN) started around midnight Chinese time on 27 September 2016. After a very quick layover in Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia being another country that would be nice to photograph sometime, especially the beaches – I landed in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City early on the 28th. It’s a tossup what they call it, by the way. I’d say the majority still call it by its original name – Saigon – though there are some who call it Ho Chi Minh City. I’ll go with the majority of folks who live there and refer to it as Saigon.
I had two full days there, the 28th and 29th, before flying out on the morning of the 30th. Choosing a random hotel from Lonely Planet (I tend to go budget & find the best available option; usually works out pretty well), I ended up at the Cat Huy Hotel, where I went directly after clearing customs.
This is a hotel in the Pham Ngu Lao area near District 1. It’s down an alley, which was interesting in and of itself. Coming from the airport, the taxi drops you off and send you walking. Each morning (or at least the 3 mornings there), this alley transforms into a very crowded fresh food market, which was outstanding to me. Sadly, though, none of the mornings afforded time to slowly wander and photograph it.
The hotel itself (and its staff) are fantastic. It’s a small hotel with only ten rooms, and the service is top notch. It’s one of the kind of hotels where guests leave books when they finish, so there’s always something interesting to read. One of them (Vietnam: Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton) caught my attention. It’s a non-fiction account of contemporary Vietnam and, while I haven’t started to read it yet, I’m quite interested in it and they let me take it. I hadn’t finished any books so didn’t leave any behind, but was still quite grateful that they let me have it.
In addition to that, they can (and did) help arrange a few tours. These can be anything from day trips to the Mekong Delta – which I would have loved, had we stayed an extra day – to day/night tours in Saigon. (Not to tout this hotel over others; I’m sure almost any, if not every, hotel in cities like these are glad to help arrange such things. I can only say that I was happy here and, if I were to return to Saigon, I’d gladly stay here again.)
The first day I was in Saigon I spent quietly. The only exploration I did was just wandered around the hotel a little, then had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. (Yes, I know this isn’t Vietnamese food, but it’s a bit of a quirky thing; I think I’ve been to 30-40 HRCs around the world now with shot glasses from all but one that I’ve been to.) That being said, lunch was good, as were the six shots I had, fruity though they were.
The HRC is in the heart of downtown near the U.S. Consulate, in addition to being near Notre Dame Cathedral, the Old Post Office, and the Reunification Palace. However, these would all be for the 29th. Today, I was alone, and waiting for my friend Junyu to arrive from Hong Kong, since she missed her morning flight.
The evening was quiet; we just ate around the hotel and arranged tours for the following day. For $11, we had a day tour with Bao and the driver, Mr. Mao. It started around 8:30, I think? I forget, but it was late enough that I was glad to have pho for breakfast.
On a full stomach, we hopped on one of those small vans that can hold about 10 people and started around the city. The first (and most depressing, by far) stop was the War Remnants Museum. This is, in my opinion, a “must see” – especially for folks from the U.S. It’s pretty much a testimonial of the war from the Vietnamese point of view and, at times, is pretty graphic. The pictures simply show the effects of the bombing, in addition to the use of agent orange, etc. Though it’s completely one-sided in its telling, it does have photographs – and many of them – that show the destruction from the war. (I won’t offer my personal thoughts on how accurate the Vietnamese or U.S. version of history is here.)
The next stop after the hour at the museum was one of the obligatory stops that seem to come on these package tours. It was to a coffee shop/store. Free samples of coffee for all (and for those of you who know me, you know how I feel about that) and stories of Vietnamese coffee.
As an aside, I think I saw that Vietnam is now the largest exporter of coffee in the world (not sure if that’s true; it surprised me all the same). They are very, very proud of their coffee and you can’t walk two meters in the country without passing a coffee shop. Their most famous coffee is “weasel coffee.” It’s pretty much the same as Indonesian Kopi Luwak. The beans are digested by animals – weasels in this case, and only then are they most fit for human consumption. So…coffee lovers, enjoy.
After the 15 minute rest stop, we hopped back in the van and went off to Chinatown in Cholon (District 5). If I recall, I think Bao said the Chinese made up about 4% of the population, though accounted for 25% of the economy. (I don’t know if that’s a current figure or a historical one.) At any rate, the first stop was at a temple that I found rather unimpressive. The Thien Hau Pagoda didn’t seem like a pagoda at all. It just felt like a cramped temple in the middle of a neighborhood. I don’t even think I got a single picture here that impressed me too much.
From there, we went to the Binh Tay Market, also in Cholon. This is a wholesale market that supposedly has a central courtyard with gardens. It may have that, but I wasn’t aware of it at the time, and didn’t see anything that mentioned it. The clock tower is nice, but the inside basically feels like a flea market or an oversized garage sale. I enjoyed walking around the exterior of the market much more as this is where the food vendors were. Munching on some cashews, I managed to get quite a few pictures of various vendors selling various food. I enjoyed that quite a bit.
After the 1-1.5 hours total in District 5, we hopped back on the van then followed along the riverside to a restaurant for lunch. We then went across the river to District 2 – currently almost completely undeveloped and on low/swampy land. (For Shanghainese, think Pudong around 1990. District 1, on the other hand, is like Puxi.) Had we stopped, I may have gotten a few interesting panoramas of District 1 from this side of the river and the emergence of District 2. However, we were on our way to the second (and, thankfully, last) obligatory stop…a lacquer production facility. Though the pieces were nice, I bought none, and politely bided my 30 minutes here.
Next up was the Reunification Palace. This is a peculiar place. Originally, it was the site of a palace built for the French leader of Cochinchina (Indochina). It was called Norodom Palace. Norodom, coincidentally, was the ruler of Cambodia. Later, it became the palace/residence for Ngo Dinh Diem, who ruled South Vietnam. He was so unpopular that his own air force bombed the palace hoping to kill him. (He was eventually assassinated by disgruntled South Vietnamese in 1963. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.)
Before he was assassinated, Diem had the palace rebuilt (with underground bunkers). Successive South Vietnamese used it as the main government building, so on the main floor are the cabinet rooms. The upper floors have reception rooms.
This is a building that is stuck in time – in the 1960s – with the interior decorations to match. It’s not the most attractive place, but definitely worth a visit. The Vietnam War ended here (symbolically, anyway) on 30 April 1975 when Viet Cong tanks crashed through the wrought iron gates. The tanks are currently on display to the right of the main lawn.
An hour at the palace – more than enough time to casually look around – and then we were off for a short drive to our last two stops: Notre Dame Cathedral & the Old Post Office, which are right next door to each other. That was the end of the $11 day trip, right around 4:00. (I forgot to mention, the $11 included admission ticket prices.)
The bus dropped us off close enough to the hotel that we had a short walk and roughly an hour to rest before the night tour (which cost $40). The night tour was drinking/eating and well worth it. Two girls on their scooters, Ha & Nga, came to the hotel to pick us up.
First evening stop, a rooftop bar. I forget the name of the bar, but it was downtown in District 1 and up on the 26th or 28th floor. (Saigon doesn’t have too many super skyscrapers like China.) It wasn’t an amazing sunset, but beautiful all the same with random lightning. I tried a number of times to catch lightning in pictures, but had no luck. However, I think the night panoramas turned out fine. Thirty minutes and two Saigon Specials down the hatch and we were back out on the streets.
Ha took me to the intersection of Phan Dinh Pung Street and Le Van Duyet Street. There’s not much memorable about this intersection except for one thing: in 1963, the Buddhist monk Thanh Quang Duc drove here in a blue Austin, got out of his car, then immediately sat in the middle of the intersection in a lotus position and lit himself on fire, killing himself in protest of Ngo Dinh Diem’s persecution of Buddhists. Nga started to explain the story to us, but when I connected the dots about who it was (I never knew his name), I stopped her. You can find the famous picture online of his self-immolation. It’s one of the iconic pictures of the entire decade of the 1960s.
Next up for us was dinner, though I don’t know the name of what we ate. We had a quick “cooking lesson” on how to make rice paper (kind of a pancake, really) that was part of dinner with vegetables. This was in the flower market, a small street where they sell – you guessed it – flowers.
Between dinner and dessert, we stopped for banh mi (or, up north, banh my) which is street food: a small baguette slathered with mayonnaise, a pepper sauce, and vegetables, and meat…or something that resembles meat, a la Spam. Whatever was in it, it was a delicious little sandwich on French bread.
The last place to stop and eat was another little side street for dessert. We had four bowls of…I don’t know what to call it. In common was that they all had crushed ice on top and were in a cream sauce. The differences was in the jelly. One was mango, one was kiwi, one was coffee, and the other was caramel/flan.
On a full stomach, Ha & Nga drove us back to the hotel where we passed out in anticipation of a morning flight to Phu Quoc Island.
As always, thanks for dropping by and viewing these pictures. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments and I’ll answer as I have time.
Burnsville High School Theatre Guild proudly presents 'Little Shop of Horrors' April 16 - 30th. Tickets can be reserved at www.MrazCenterTickets.com.
The Horrors at the Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, London. One of the hot act this year. A band confirming their potential. Full se on live on 35mm
Burnsville High School Theatre Guild proudly presents 'Little Shop of Horrors' April 16 - 30th. Tickets can be reserved at www.MrazCenterTickets.com.
Pretty self explanatory. I dont think Ive ever wittnessed something so amusing.
ATTENTION HORRORS FANS!
If anyone decides to post these on Tumblr or whatever, please credit me as the photographer.
If you live in Thailand, you see this living/breathing stereotype at least 10X/day.
I would like to draw your attention to several details:
1) Thai wive/gf at least 15 years younger.
2) In a society where it polite to be well-dressed and arms covered up, he is wearing a singlet with a Red Bull logo.
3) He has a naked girl tatoo on his shoulder. Classy.
4) It's 10 am and that is his second beer.
5) Him and his wife/gf are barely talking to each other. She looks really bored.
6) *neck fat*
7) sunburn
I wish I could throw a burka over these guys and not see them anymore.
Burnsville High School Theatre Guild proudly presents 'Little Shop of Horrors' April 16 - 30th. Tickets can be reserved at www.MrazCenterTickets.com.
The Horrors live in London presenting the second beautiful album.
Full set of B&W photographs and gig review on Live on 35mm
Burnsville High School Theatre Guild proudly presents 'Little Shop of Horrors' April 16 - 30th. Tickets can be reserved at www.MrazCenterTickets.com. [REHEARSAL PHOTO]
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