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May 2009

Whistling Past the Graveyard

05/08/09

Whistling Past the Graveyard

We’re now in Kanchanaburi, a mellow riverside town in western Thailand that backpackers love for a reason that may or may not have something to do with pot. It is also, as you surely know, the birthplace of the Buddhist monk Phrabhavanaviriyakhun. (Luang Phaw Dattajeevo, for short.) But Kanchanaburi is perhaps best known for...

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The continuing adventures of The Closer, aka Chicago's deputy dining editor and humor columnist Jeff Ruby. After chronicling his wife's pregnancy and eventual delivery on a Hyde Park floor in gory detail, Ruby fast-forwards a year to his paternity leave, during which his threesome inexplicably decided to travel 10,000 miles away. Again, Push is more slog than blog, since the events aren't happening in real time, but rather a flashback to three people fumbling their way from the jungles of Vietnam to a strange island off the Great Barrier Reef seemingly populated only by Japanese schoolgirls to the sickest bathroom in Thailand. And again, nothing is omitted.

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