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Saturday, June 22, 2019

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JEWISH BUSINESSMEN--Saigon









Saw this for the first time today in a bookstore window.

JEWISH BUSINESSMEN
MASTERS OF COMMERCE

WHEN THREE JEWS SNEEZE, BANKS WORLDWIDE CATCH A COLD...

BORROW AN EGG, TURN IT INTO A HATCHERY

The author is a Chinese named Trương Đông Triết in Vietnamese spelling. If you know anything about this man or book, do tell me.



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Huỳnh clan house--Saigon









Huỳnh [Wang] Clan House. Chinese clan houses in Vietnam are pretty lame compared to, say, those in Malaysia.



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ila STUDY ABROAD sign in District 6--Saigon









ila STUDY ABROAD

HAVE FUN STUDYING
LOOK FAR
THINK BIG

FLY HIGHER EACH DAY
WITH ILA STUDY ABROAD



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Community condeming a hoodlum, whore and junkie--Saigon











Community condeming a hoodlum, whore and junkie--Saigon (detail)









[community condeming a hoodlum, whore and drug dealer]



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Two people lying outside VIB--Saigon









[VIB is Vietnam International Bank]



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Cowboy in American flag shirt on smart camera shop sign in District 10--Saigon











Cowboy in American flag shirt on smart camera shop sign in District 10--Saigon (detail)









[smart camera shop]



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Old watches for sale on sidewalk near Vinh Vien and Nguyen Tri Phuong--Saigon











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Used amplifiers and speakers--Saigon










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Vinh Vien Street scene on 6-22-19--Saigon











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Nguyen Kim Street scene on 6-22-19--Saigon











Nguyen Kim Street scene on 6-22-19--Saigon (detail)









The lady is selling fresh squeezed orange juice and gelatin.

Graffiti, "NGHĨA'S HOUSE HEE HEE."



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Sleeping woman wearing conical hat and a Union Jack patch--Saigon











Sleeping woman wearing conical hat and a Union Jack patch--Saigon (detail)











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Cafe Kieu in District 10--Saigon 2









Café Kiều in District 10. Kiều is the name of the heroine in Nguyễn Du's 3,254-line classic, The Tale of Kiều.

Vietnamese are as addicted to coffee as anybody on earth. I just walked by an intersetion where there was a cafe at each corner, and you often see cafés right next to each other.



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Cafe Kieu in District 10--Saigon









[Café Kiều in District 10]



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Sexy woman on chandelier company sign in Tan Binh--Saigon











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White family on chandelier company sign in Tan Binh--Saigon











White family on chandelier company sign in Tan Binh--Saigon (detail)











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Man sleeping on a motorbike-truck in Tan Binh--Saigon










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Woman sleeping next to loaded bicycle in Tan Binh--Saigon








That's a bicycle, loaded with all that junk.



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About Me

Born in Vietnam in 1963, I lived mostly in the US from 1975 until 2018, but have returned to Vietnam, where I live in remote Ea Kly. I've also lived in Italy, England and Germany. I'm the author of a non-fiction book, Postcards from the End of America (2017), a novel, Love Like Hate (2010), two books of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), and six collections of poems, with a Collected Poems apparently cancelled by Chax Press from external pressure. I've been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology (vol. 2) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World, etc. I'm also editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and The Deluge: New Vietnamese Poetry (2013). My writing has been translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read in Tokyo, London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Reykjavik, Toronto, Singapore and all over the US. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.