Click here to read Credo of a Giant Killer,  a piece about my dive into the world of sumo in Japan, centred around a man with a cooler nickname than I’ll ever likely garner.

Click to read my latest rant in the front-of-book pundit section of the August issue of The Caravan: Asking an Astronaut to Save the Rainforest. The piece offers what I think is a new slant on what happened during the G20 meetings/riots in Toronto in June.

As my friend Michael said, if this piece does put me on some kind of Thai blacklist, it would show the breadth of my readership. Also, if I were ever denied a visa to Thailand because of my anti-Royal stand, I’d always have a career as a free-speech martyr.

Click to read The Elephant in the Parliament.

Click here to read my latest article published in The Caravan magazine’s June 2010 issue, about the philosophical impasse between objective reporting and press junkets, and to find out what Calvin Klein model Jamie Burke and the head of a Tibetan Buddhist sect have in common.

It’s always nice to see something you’re working on get some cred.

Click here to read a review of The Caravan in the New York Review of Magazines.

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Follow this link to read my ‘personal history’ in this week’s Tehelka magazine. First article for me with a cartoon headshot–the crassest of milestones.

More soon,

Dave.

Here’s my latest travel piece, published in The Toronto Star.

Beauty, eh.

Here’s a link to my latest travel piece, from Hayama, Japan, published by Mint-Wall Street Journal in Delhi, India: Transition Town.

For more serious fare, see my essay in this month’s Caravan, End of Days.

More soon,

D.

Check this link to read my latest essay published in the March issue of The Caravan magazine. The comments feature is now up, so feel free to prove to the rest of the internet that yes–it is actually possible to use those comment sections to say something thoughtful and intelligent.

Enjoy,

Dave.

Wang Chaoying is a Chinese artist, calligrapher, historian, etc–a mutual friend of my Tokyo family at Gallery ef, Asakusa.

Gallery ef has once again collaborated with European governments to bring Wang’s work to the West, and I am once again happy to have played my very small role in the process.

If you happen to be around southern Austria in the coming weeks, check the dates and times on the link below and see how Wang has once again made ancient, pre-Qing dynasty concepts accesible to us post-postmodern palefaces.

http://www.ji-bo.com/e_heng_index.htm

Werd,

D.