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Suitcases
As international teachers living in a country where alcohol is hard to come by, we usually take visiting the duty free shop very seriously and on more than one occasion break duty laws by bringing in more than our allotted 2 bottle maximum. I even know someone (name withheld in order to protect them from the Bengali Duty Authority search) that brought in 20+ bottles of spirits one time. But this blog isn't about rum and bulk wine ... it's about meat. A friend that (I'm not sure it's smuggling though) brings in bulk meat. Sausages, whole fish, pork shoulder, steak fillets, haggis (give it away?) and (here's why I'm blogging this) skate .... yes a whole string ray wing. It's in his freezer ... I saw it. I remain thoroughly amazed at his stock of meat products.
Back home
Back in Dhaka! Ahh the comfort of the smells and sounds ... well at least we are back in our own space.
There's Always Room for Bulk Sparklers and Snakes
Light writing has been around since the chinese invented sparklers
I think these are the night before we left ... I was actually worried about testing for gunpowder at the airport and having to submit to a body cavity search.
Here my father tries the three sparkler tribute!
The wind kicked up on the beach ..
King of Kong
Even though we have bootleg DVD's in Dhaka, there is a limit to the more low budget documentaries we can get and which I so love to watch. Being summer, I love to catch up. King of Kong being one of them this summer. Although Dave blogged about Billy Mitchell's scandalizing performance. (I watched all the DVD extras and also went online to see what happened next) What really blew my mind was that there was really a Mappy champion out there somewhere. Sure Asteriods, Centipede, and Pac-Man but Mappy?
Super High Me
Another off the shelf documentary about comedian Doug Benson who goes sober (no pot or alcohol) for 30 days and then does 30 days of constant smoking. Along the way he takes the SAT and does medical and psychological tests during both phases. Pretty interesting results ... and my parents sat through the whole thing too.
Theater
There are some really interesting play companies in Houston and one of our favorites The Infernal Bride Groom Productions went bankrupt a couple of years ago and with it Tamarie Cooper's crazy autobiographical musical productions (she put on ten of them). Dancing bacon, time-traveling sit-n-spins, singing cocktails, or whatever came out of her mind or life would come to life on stage. Well ... they reformed into the Catastrophic Theater and we went to see The Tamalie Cooper Show, which was a more mature married and wanting a kid Tamalia ... that still had dancing sperm, a heaven and hell battle with dieting, health, and junk food (complete with golden exercycle entering on the shoulders of angels during a symphonic climax), and her husband being played by an short overweight gay man and her dog being played by a tall man with a hand puppet.
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