The inaugural European Games will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan June 12-28, 2015. The event is a high point in Azerbaijan’s campaign to raise their tourism profile in recent years, as well as the New York Times listing Baku among its “52 Places to Go in 2015” and Lonely Planet…

Welp, my diabolical plan to go around Seattle robbing people has suffered a slight hiccup. Turns out Seattlites won’t hesitate to beat the living crap out of criminals, even when they’re brandishing firearms. This surveillance video shows how one man got ANGRY when a robber waved a gun in his…

The three or four people closely following my glorious career, and composing various unauthorized biographies about me, peed themselves a little recently when I quietly launched a new side project: A gangsta rapper alter ego known as “Righteous Culo.” This was combined with the announcement of my first album filled…

A few months ago I promised to put together a slide show tease of Romania and Moldova from my trips this summer and my vast collection of photos. Done and done. Background music by Zdob şi Zdub.

Yeah, yeah, I’m posting twice this week, so just get over it already. Take your non-mouse hand, reach up and close your mouth before something flies in there and dies. This relative flurry of posting is partly to make up for my rare, if ever, post frequency while I’m in…

Due to my grueling schedule of world class scuba diving and seven course meals here in Micronesia, I’ve only just learned that nominations for the annual Travvies blog awards opened last week! There’s only one more week to nominate me! Run, run!!! For the second year in a row, the…

If so, would you care to share the tale? I’ve been assigned the dubious task of writing an article about what to do if you’re arrested abroad (my editor seemed to think that I’d know a little something about this) and I’d like a few anecdotes to include in the…