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The chaos theory of Mongolia

I returned to Mongolia 15 years ago after an absence of 13 years, save for the occasional 2-week leave from work, and that time I spent a semester and a half at a local university drinking endless cups of brown, watery 150 Tugrik instant MaCcoffee at the cafĂ© strangely, or perhaps egotistically, named "In my memory", writing the first and so far the only book that got us into trouble with the local intelligence who apparently had little else to do than to pore through the ramblings of teenagers to catch the tell-tale signs of drug dealery. But I digress. When you visit a country for a short period, be it home or not, you hardly have time to immerse yourself in the spirit of the country and the city and feel the nitty gritty and dirty shiny of it all. So after 13 years, it took me a while to readjust and finally understand what the hometown of my childhood had become.  The most striking, ubiquitous, and inescapable feature was and still, unfortunately, is the traffic. In 2008,...

News of the Weird

So in the news of the weird, former political commentator Dashzeveg, now rebranded as DZMan, will soon be playing a concert in UB. He used to be a prominent political commentator "back in the day" far as I can remember, though mostly of international politics. Next thing I know, he reappeared with Tintin hairdo in a neon bubble-gum dance music video saying "I am DZMan", which I first heard as "I am dizzy, man", which he should be given the loud trance / dance music, skimpily-clad girls surrounding him and him being probably at least 150 years old. If you search for DZMan on youtube, you can find his video clip, I can't be bothered to search for it and post it up here. 

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