A few days ago I was asked to make a contribution to a CNN Go article about momos, the Himalayan dumpling whose popularity has spread it like a wildfire to various places throughout South and East Asia.  Monkeetime devotees know that I tend to not care a whole lot about local foods as for me grub is all about nourishment [...]

As I type this (Feb 29, 2012), various news channels are filled with reports of riots in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) as a response to some copies of the Koran being burned at the Bagram Air Base.  Being a rabid antitheist, and, for the time being, free of the various forces of censorship which normally shut down free speech out there [...]

Every time I have visited China, there was some sort of new fad, something cute, some sort of accessory that everyone wanted, something, anything.  Recently a new, rather sick craze took over the land: animal keychains. Not injection-moulded plastic elephants and giraffes, but live turtles, salamanders and fish jammed into a plactic, water-filled  bag, sealed, and sold for as little as [...]

This Crew particularly the ugly freak with the long girlish hair and the ignorant vulgar mouthed one with the Scandinavian accent make the polite and well mannered communist North Koreans the hero’s in this video series. I hope the North Koreans don’t think that the rest of us in the non communist World are like these disrespectful dirty low life’s! [...]

Gers Gone Wild (which you may or may not have seen already) was a 3 week romp through the spanktacular and diverse scenery that is on tap in Mongolia.  Many days of driving, countless adventures, heaps of new stuff, no shortage of challenges: it was everything that travel is supposed to be, and one of the best expeditions I had [...]

I stepped off a plane on February 6th, 2003, and everything changed. Big time…  Since then, February 6th is a special date in my head. It’s not like anything extraordinary happens on this day, but I get a repeat of that flashbulb memory first shocker of arriving in a completely up-side-down place, the feeling of not knowing W.T.F. is going on, [...]

This was a piece I wrote on my Facebook page a few years ago…It is actually quite relevant to Monkeetime.com because I get a regular dose of hate mail from people who don’t appreciate my stupid Nazi jokes in my videos.  Written day after Halloween… ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Every year at about this time (Halloween, for those of you living in Saudi [...]

“Free Tibet!!!” – who hasn’t heard this? Unless you have been living in a dungeon for most of your life or you get your news from bar coasters you should have heard of Tibet and its various independence organizations… Often portrayed as one of the biggest struggles for freedom in the 20th (and 21st) century, liberation of Tibet is a [...]

“Your snide remarks and sarcasm seem to be poking fun at North Korea rather than expressing warmth and sympathy for the people struggling there.” blizzardman59   My horribly inappropriate reply: @blizzardman59 I really don’t think too many North Koreans are watching this… And the ones that do probably need to be gassed and disposed of in a mass grave, because they [...]

St. Petersburg photos

Here is the second part of our journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway.  In this gallery you will find pics from Novosibirsk and Moscow.

This page is for those who just cannot let go of North Korea… This country continues to fascinate, continues to pop up in the media, and ever week/month something amazing happens. I love it. In addition to launching a “washing machine wrapped in aluminium foil” (as their satellite was described by American diplomats) – into the sea, here is a [...]