AMOSHIMASHA

2011-06-15T04:41:00.000-07:00

AMO'Sh & Sylvia (a student of mine)Shenyang, ChinaWinter 2011Sylvia called this "Your Handsome Picture"Blah. Hahaha.

2011-06-15T04:37:00.000-07:00

B''HI have successfully unicycled from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, to Singapore, a rich-a%$ islandopolis that happens to be country, too. It was a grueling trek. I am currently in Delhi, India and got shots unicycling with the Taj Mahal in the background at Agra. When I recover from this illness of the gut, I will try to get the pictures and "treatises" posted.AMO''Sh Out.

Under a Tight Malaysian Hold

2011-05-05T04:13:00.000-07:00

I have been unicycling for 3 days now, starting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia---near the central bus station. Somehow I made my way out of the city and unicycled along the highway breakdown lane until the 265 KM mark to Johor Bahru, the city across the water from Singapore, and my penultimate destination on this leg of the (U)nicycle tour---from around the 327 KM mark in KL. The "Polis" spotted me

Blast! I've been Done! Blasted Thou O Thai Beast, Rear Thy Stegosauratic Tail Of Base, Filthy Filchery!

2011-04-30T08:48:00.000-07:00

Sadly, a young fellow in Bangkok, Thailand seems to have pickpocketed my bag of $900.00 at a net cafe and right under my nose. I was later going to wire and deposit the amount, but stopped to update this very blog ere getting to that.

2011-04-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

This is a clip of me unicycling in Burma (What's Myanmar?) where photography and filming is strictly forbidden for foreigners. So, I had to do this surreptitiously and swiftly to avoid having my camera confiscated or being imprisoned as a state security threat---well, at least that way, I would get to stay in Burma for longer than the one-day visa curently oh so generously and openly allows.

2011-04-30T07:27:00.000-07:00

This is a clip of AMO''Sh in the home of Muslim Burmese fellow who invited me in off a steep dirt alley on the side of a hill to watch "Bruce Almighty" and drink a cool glass of water. April's End 2011.

2011-04-27T22:12:00.000-07:00

My (U)nicycle "Mirkevet HaMetutelet HaHofkit", lonely against Angkor Wat,Outside Siam Reap from whence I unicycled,Cambodia, April 2011

2011-04-27T22:06:00.000-07:00

Filling Up The Tank at the Gas StationKampuchea-style,April 2011Rural Cambodia

2011-04-27T21:36:00.000-07:00

That blasted, dreadful tourist trap Khaosan Road, Bangkok, ThailandDuring Songkran (Thai New Year),2011;Which is famous to the outside world as "Water Festival"---for it is the accepted custom to fall heart-first into anatomogasmic throes of flesh-colored massy throng of a drunken orgiastic loss par excellence of the self as it is in Mardi Gras in mine ol' Nawlins and in Carnival in Rio De

2011-04-27T21:19:00.000-07:00

AMO''ShBangkokApril 2011Post-Pesach

2011-04-27T20:59:00.000-07:00

AMO''Sh with UnicycleSome backstreet soi, Bangkok, Thailand,April 28, 2011,a few days afterPesach 5771

2011-04-11T00:15:00.000-07:00

AMO''Sh riding his unicycle at Angkor Wat, near Siam Reap, Cambodia, April 2011

2011-04-09T08:41:00.000-07:00

Please see the newest video clips of me unicycling in Cambodia: The Kampuchean Passage II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGeW_dAJsl8&NR=1 & Jewish Unicycling at Angkor Wat http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRebbesUkulele#p/a/u/0/nBERyJ5spZ0

2011-04-09T08:36:00.000-07:00

Angkor Wat

2011-04-09T08:33:00.000-07:00

Angkor Wat, Apr. 2011

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AMO''Sh at Angkor Wat, Apr. 2011

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Children innocently at play at the local playground; about 9 KM East of Banteay Dek (which I renamed "Ben-Tzedeq"), Cambodia, Apr. 2011

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This queer statue near the Mekong in Neak Leuong, Cambodia reveals much about the "Cambodia Year Zero"Revolution, where traditional Khmer Buddhism was said to be the reason for Cambodia's pathetic weakness by the Khmer Rouge and this attitude resulted in the deaths and force labor of many bonzes and members of clergy. The sole way to serve the "Angkar" or the "Organization" (which is one of the

2011-04-09T08:01:00.000-07:00

AMO''Sh having just crossed the Mekong River at Neak Leuong, Cambodia, April 2011

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Beware...the ink is the color or Soylent Green...

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Cambodian Roadside

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My Unicycle (Mirkevet HaMetutelet HaHofkit---"Chariot of the Inverted Pendulum) and Ukulele (Ben Ruakh Khutim---"Wind of Strings II") in the morning light in rural Cambodia off Route 1 the day after the angry villager kicked me off his propertypresumably because of his pretty daughter and spent the night with orange robed monks in their countryside Wat. April 2011.

2011-04-09T05:28:00.000-07:00

After a particularly pensive, but sentimental Shabbat here in Siam Reap, the drunken yells of almost professionally ditzy backpacker co-eds from Merry Ol' England and her Lost Colonies nearly disturbing my davenings and meditations, I had a chilled, scared feeling of creeping Horror. Recently have I become even more educated on the abject terrors of Cambodia Year Zero, the Khmer Rouge, and the

2011-04-06T20:23:00.001-07:00

After another several days, walking and unicycling from Svay Rieng along Route 1, I made it to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia/kampuchea, stopping every few miles to drink water at dilapidated hutsides in the wild uncivilized bush, writing Haikishus and "philosophical" medidations on scraps of paper amongst the flies of the palm tree`d swamp. I can not believe I have made it. There were so

2011-04-01T03:22:00.001-07:00

This is PROOF of the Jew unicycling through rural Eastern Cambodia---please watch this video clip.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkkmTuJr-BIAmosh Out.

2011-04-01T01:19:00.000-07:00

A short run-up of the Wall To Wall (U)nicycle Hosomichi---Thus far, I have taken a bus from Shenyang to Dandong, China, a ferry boat from Dandong, China to Incheon, Korea, a city bus and the Metro to Seoul, a bus from Seoul to Busan, Korea, a ferry boat from Busan, Korea to Fukuoka-Hakata, Japan, the Shinkansen (Bullet Train) from Fukuoka-Hakata, Japan to Tokyo, Japan (passing through Hiroshima

2011-04-01T01:17:00.000-07:00

Phnom Penh Municipality 165 KM

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About 10 KM east of Moc Bai Border Crossing between Vietnam and Cambodia.

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Chanson-ded-Dzhess & AMO'Sh, 2005ish, Short Pump, VA

2011-04-01T00:04:00.000-07:00

Chanson-de-Dzhess (a pun on the literary genre Çhanson de Geste---of which La Chanson de Roland is perhaps the most widely known example---a form I was obsessed with at the time, 2005)---Asher Ahavti LeGa'Gu'ei Lemor "Vidui"

2011-03-31T23:58:00.000-07:00

Shan Qian Hui & AMO"Sh

2011-03-31T23:51:00.000-07:00

Another angle and lighting of "Rose In The Rough"

2011-03-31T23:44:00.000-07:00

"Rose In The Rough"---a mosaic I made on my kitchen floor till my fingers bled, with tweezers and industrial caulking glue, for Shan Qian Hui, Shenyang, China, 2010

2011-03-31T23:39:00.000-07:00

Zhalantun, China, 2009ish

2011-03-31T23:37:00.000-07:00

Shanghai, China---2010ish

2011-03-31T23:30:00.000-07:00

On of the strangest CD covers I have ever seen. I saw this by chance, while living in Manzhouli, China, 2009. The disastrous lighting of this picture, which I had to snap covertly in the "CD shop" of that outlaw citylet on the steppe, makes the writing hard to make out. It reads from left to right, in a combination of Latin Script and Hebrew Square Script (note that Hebrew is supposed to be read

2011-03-31T23:26:00.000-07:00

Shenyang, China, 2010

2011-03-31T23:24:00.000-07:00

Taba Border, Sinai Peninsula, Israel-Egypt, December or January, 2006

2011-03-31T23:07:00.000-07:00

Shan Qian Hui, asher Ahavti, Shenyang, 5770-1

2011-03-29T06:33:00.000-07:00

Bust of Ho Chi Minh, outside Vientiane, laos, Mar. 2011

2011-03-29T06:31:00.000-07:00

Yet another Vietnamese toast to Communism,outside Saigon, Mar. 2011. Go Go Vet Cong! yeah.

2011-03-29T06:01:00.000-07:00

At least she's not Malignant Girl (?). Translation: 'She's not AS much of a cancer as Barbie (TM).' -Mar. 2011; somewhere in rural Vietnam, south of Hanoi and North of Saigon---which is a long swath indeed.

2011-03-29T05:48:00.000-07:00

Unicycling in Vientiane, Laos, Mar. 2011; This is for you Joel.

2011-03-29T05:39:00.000-07:00

Unicycling in Vientiane, Laos, in front of the Vietnamese Embassy, Mar. 2011

2011-03-29T05:20:00.000-07:00

Feb. 2011, Beijing Sam MiDrA''P and AMO''Sh, Two damned good friends; He and I helped each other out in Brotherly ways, from Manzhouli to Shenyang to Beijing those two years and 3 months I lived in China. I wouldn't've madeit without him. Truly, a Mensch is my boy Sam. -Writing from Cu Chi, Vietnam; a local mother and son who own a roadside hammock-filled outdoor canteen helping me out, letting

2011-03-27T23:14:00.000-07:00

A comment I tried to leave on a Qaraite's Blog with an article about the 'Telugu Jews' (Bene Ephraim) of Andhra Pradesh, India:B''HI am a young American Jewish man of Ashkenazi-Sephardic descent and have been living in the Far East for several years. Currently, I am in the process of making a somewhat singular 'Aliyah to Israel. Armed with a ukulele, unicycle, and small word processor, I am

Revisions of the Tour

2011-03-15T06:58:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, a revision of the Wall To Wall (U)nicycle Hosomichi* has been necessitated by a severe depletion of funds saved, working in China for over two years, due to coming down with Shingles (the same virus as chickenpox) in Seoul, Korea. There I sought medical treatment---consultations with doctors and purchase of antivirals and topical creams. It cost me a fortune.I will unicycle as

2011-03-14T00:32:00.000-07:00

Samples of recent Writings: China, Korea, and Japan.The Dialectics of Love is when Care defeats Infatuation in the fated battle of the Twilight of the Idols of Limerence. Love qua Care shakes the heart at its Qalb; love qua Infatuation shakes the heart at its Qlipah.The Pyramidic Model of Amorostrata goes as follows, ascending level by level from the bottom up: Puppy Love, Crush, LIKE Like,

2011-03-13T23:53:00.000-07:00

Unicycling in front of the Vietnamese Embassy, Vientiane, Laos.March 2011.

2011-03-13T23:24:00.000-07:00

A Porn Guesthouse?Do you pay themOr do they pay you?

2011-03-13T23:09:00.000-07:00

A village right out of the highlands of Northern Laos, a few minutes after the huge lurching sleeper bed bus I was riding in nearly careened off the hairpin cliffside road carved into the mountainsides into the verdant, ferny ravines hundreds of feet below (this was nothing new to me though---Mexico, Colombia, and Central Northern China came to mind) (I was in the far back bunk with six other

2011-03-13T23:05:00.000-07:00

China-Lao Border Mar. '11

2011-03-13T22:54:00.000-07:00

The China-Laos No-Man's-Landat the border crossing at Mohan & Boten, March 2011; I had finally reached Laos after a decade of dreaming it---for it began as a childish bet between my brother Joel and me when we were young, back in Lorton, Virginia, choosing the farthest away and unlikeliest place we could think of;10, 000 dollars if I make it there by age 26 (which this year I just happen to be)

2011-03-13T22:49:00.000-07:00

Kunming, CXHinaKunming, Yunnan, China March 2011

2011-03-13T22:25:00.000-07:00

AMo''Sh and Dereau, friends since college, two true Jews---Dereau says if our achetypes of character could be translated into the world of the classic cinematic masterpiece A Serious Man, Dereau would be the clinically patient and ironically "deferential" Prof. Lawrence "Larry" Gopnik and I would be Sy Abelman, the absurdly patronizing and chutzpatically therapist-like, casually dressed, yet

"Sit Down, Baby!" Video Excerpt from Teaching 3-year olds in Shenyang, China, 2011

2011-02-07T01:06:00.000-08:00

Please also see: http://www.youtube.com/user/TherebbesUkulele#p/a/a/0/K9QgVRv7W3o

My Ever-Darkening Seoul; All Moneyed Up In Seoul, Korea

2011-01-27T03:41:00.000-08:00

Chillaxin' Like Samuel L. Jackson

2009-12-08T17:56:00.001-08:00

Zikukin Di Nur*

2009-11-28T04:32:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7d5uOuVUq4This is a link to a video on Amosh's (Unicycalex's) youtube spot. It is pretty poor, but gives one an idea of what silly things he does with his time until the day when his quixotic picaresque opens and he sprints forward youthfully, pedaling his single, little wheel on lonely roads across the world---hoping to inspire a tiny shared flash of family

2009-11-22T23:08:00.000-08:00

Yisrael KhAiMoSh ben ShaZAlex M. SchwartzmanAlon ben Qeni16 Adar I 5768[A Re-e-publication of Early Works:]The Rabbi of KartoshnikyeOnce in the small village of Kartoshnikye there was a Rabbi Chaim ben Chutzpah. Rabbi Chaim ben Chutzpah had 4 disciples. His first disciple was Ari Af Gadol. His second disciple was Yitzhak haMensch. And his third and fourth disciples were Zalman ben Yokhanan and

Wall To Wall (U)nicycling With (U)nicycalex: "The Ridetinerary": Masha's Deluxe Edition

2009-11-21T04:06:00.000-08:00

*"UNICYCALING"=ALex's Unicycling

Wall To Wall (U)nicycling With (U)nicycalex: "The Ridetinerary"

2009-11-19T23:51:00.000-08:00

Here is the projected riding itinerary, or "ridetinerary" as I have so punishably taken to calling it---Aunt Brauna is sure to give me a proper "Yiddishe Aunte" whupping for this one.Note that the "ridetinerary" is tentative and is subject to change without notice. However, all divergences will be reported faithfully and carefully as the tour itself begins and real turnings of single wheel begin

In Memory of Those Who Fought and Perished in The Tian'anmen Square Protests of 1989

2009-11-03T05:08:00.000-08:00

This unassuming photograph is nonetheless the very postcard for "Let's Going, Let's Gone: Goodbye for Mao"---an esoteric phrase I coined to size up my own emotional situation---and that of the greater People's Republic of China. "Let's Going, Let's Gone" is intended to be a mock-Chinglish* rendering of some standard English catchphrase like: "Let's Get Out Of Here---and Now!" Funnily enough,

I Got My Drink And My Two-Steppe: The Mongolian Intersignificance

2009-10-28T23:51:00.000-07:00

Aeons ago, smack in the momentous year of 2002, I was a Junior in high school at Landmark Career Academy. The esconced mew of a secreted brainwashing facility was an alternative school, run under the chilly auspices of the Fairfax County Public School system in that strangest youth-haunt of Northern Virginia (which factors like a dispirited, grungier East Coast regurgitation of Orange County, but

2009-10-28T23:04:00.000-07:00

Unicycalex Taking It To The Great Wall Of China

2009-10-11T23:31:00.000-07:00

Unicycling on The Great Wall of China at Simatai

2009-10-11T23:03:00.000-07:00

A Later Enfamed Game I invented at Oumeida School: "Hot Air"

2009-10-11T22:34:00.000-07:00

Playing "Hot Air" With My Students

2009-10-11T21:51:00.000-07:00

Sniffing The Green Spice

2009-09-10T07:15:00.000-07:00

This little soiree went down in Erlian, China about 3 miles from the Mongolian border with a group of rugged folk from Ulaan Baatar, the Rome of the ceaseless, surrounding Mongolian steppe. All dirt tracks lead to it. The woman on my right is Tyyn, an originally pixily helpful sprite, and then, mysteriously disappearing skipping stone. She had made weird talk of introducing me to her school

Construction Paper Black Hole

2009-09-10T06:18:00.000-07:00

This was an early game I developed at Oumeida English Language Training Center in Manzhouli, China a few months ago, during a period in which, like any newcomer, I was undergoing a sort of professional "hazing" ritual. I was expected to take the blame for most anything that went wrong ever anyhow, but that soon ceased, when they saw I don't play such games. I make my own; and mine aren't to

Mou-Jikan-Yo

2009-09-09T19:58:00.000-07:00

This disastrous flop of work is from the hand of Amosh; Art Brut graphics as of a straight-jacketed patient unleashed on a poor, unsuspecting early version of Microsoft Paint. The Kanji is pathetically ungrammatical and Ad-Libbish, like the trendy faux-AZN tattoos of so many illiterate inkers, whose tats read in surreal, mangled characters mantras like: "Crazy Diarrhoea" and "Particularly

Training Montage: Manzhouli to the Russian border and back

2009-09-08T23:12:00.000-07:00