tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post5168025984860291733..comments2024-03-29T12:05:09.910+07:00Comments on <b>Postcards from the End of [the] America[n Empire]</b>: Henry Trotter and Billy Monk in the Tavern of the SeasLinh Dinhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-57713975933971473942021-09-28T09:15:55.118+07:002021-09-28T09:15:55.118+07:00Vietnam is still closed, so I can't go back to...Vietnam is still closed, so I can't go back to Saigon. Vietnam is handling its Covid situation idiotically, with a lockdown that's doing tremendous harm to its economy. People are suffering horribly. All of this started with the introduction of American vaccines, which caused the spread of the "Delta variant." Vaccines cause health crisis, simple as that.Linh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-29491872923372044212021-09-28T01:47:48.246+07:002021-09-28T01:47:48.246+07:00LD, I love your AWP meme, especially since if they...LD, I love your AWP meme, especially since if they really read your work, they would realize that at some level you are a sympathizer. However, them attacking you instead of the ones who have conquered and occupied their countries demonstrates their cowardice--shoot the messenger and all that.<br /><br />I have to say though as funny as that shit is, that time some white broad tried to correct you on your city of birth was just too much--the pinnacle of arrogance. Anyway, when are you going back to Ho Chi Minh City? LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-87480935876439969942021-09-27T20:51:29.876+07:002021-09-27T20:51:29.876+07:00Billy Monk's candid shots look very much like ...Billy Monk's candid shots look very much like Diane Arbus's freak show photography. <br /><br />Dutch and English people naturally have a physical strangeness/weirdness about them, Billy Monk getting gritty flash photos of half-drunk English sailors and Dutch prostitutes in a dark, seedy, Cape Town dive bar makes for a worthy slice-of-life preservation of late 1960's South African human reality, it also makes excellent propaganda against White Supremacy: how can anyone consider these white people to be "privileged"? Of course, the quick reply would be that these whites squandered their privilege which non-whites never had to squander. <br /><br />I can see why these people wanted to be drunk: imagine the horror of facing yourself living that type of life sober. In their shoes I, too, would want to be drunk all the time.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03882943745495495138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-1387684954779162282021-09-27T10:59:16.273+07:002021-09-27T10:59:16.273+07:00Those deranged commenters are enjoying each other&...Those deranged commenters are enjoying each other's wit in that echo chamber!<br /><br />Here's the best <a href="https://americansuburbx.com/2011/09/billy-monk-capetown-nightclubs-1967-69.html" rel="nofollow">link</a> to Monk's photos.Linh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-65459590507961913542021-09-27T06:23:54.634+07:002021-09-27T06:23:54.634+07:00Thanks Linn. Enjoyed the Billy Monk documentary, a...Thanks Linn. Enjoyed the Billy Monk documentary, as well as the refreshing absence here of psychologically deranged, and pathologically stupid comments from Unz readers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com