Dharavi
Where they filmed Slumdog Millionaire
Borneo Delight
This guy is the reason to go to Sabah on the other coast from Kota Kinabalu The British colonized Api Api, an exotic port on the South China Sea and named it Jesselton at the dawn of the 20th century. During WWII, the Japanese seized control for its strategic geography until the Allied Forces bombed […]
Jemaa el-Fnaa
A bar off the town square (or minding my own business in Marrakesh)
I don’t think I’d hit puberty, yet, when I first saw Hitchcock’s remake of his own “The Man Who Knew Too Much” on TV, but when I did, I was hooked on two things: Hitchcock movies and Morocco. Okay, so, Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day take their young son on a holiday to Marrakech. After […]
View at dusk
Hanging out the window as the sun goes down.
Marrakesh
It was about half past midnight and I was four beers deep when I left El Saalam, one of the few clubs that serves liquor off of Jamaa el Fna, the place where I shot this video. Halfway home, a guy saw me checking my map and offered to help. I read on guide sites […]
Elbow comedy
It was pure comedy gold when my face kissed the sidewalk on Chambers St in front of an audience the size of an equity waiver house. How did you simply fall face first, you might ask? I’d say none of your business. But through that week, the minor nose and lip scrapes gave way to […]
Our last night in NYC
The movers are here, swarming my apartment with paper and tape, packing up every tangible memory I have. I’m heading back to LA and I’m kinda freaking out about it. NYC is home, moved here five years and two months ago. I love my neighborhood and my building. The doormen have had my back this […]
Mumbai
The best upgrade in my life at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai.
Living with Crocs in Sri Lanka
