Unlimited Kids: Siomai and Friends Fries [chp 4]

Impressions of an American visiting the Philippines… At my host family’s house, I found out that the surrounding neighborhood was dotted with relatives. When I visited the house, up to twenty children under fourteen years of age would come running. That’s my cousin, they told me, those are our other cousins… and they are our sister in…

Provincial Coconut Concoction: Siomai and Friends Fries [chp 2]

Impressions of an American visiting the Philippines… A food van with big speakers woke me just before seven a.m., blasting an American pop song that I vaguely recognized from the 1990s. Kind of frat-boy spring break-feeling, like the band Sugar Ray, but not them… maybe. The van driver was selling fresh breads of all kinds,…

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Salem, Virginia: Seventy Years of Baseball Passion

“In early August of 1941, six players were sold to the Boston Braves in a single deal,” writes historian Stewart Hill. “One player, Salemite Preston Reynolds, quit the team outright when he learned that employers in Radford would pay the princely wage of 60 cents an hour!” Salem’s first pro club made its debut back…

Chris DeBrie’s Alexandr, Vampire Hunter: Page 1

Here, Wash Your Hands Productions puts Chris DeBrie’s Alexandr comic book into syndication. Read about the ‘newest in vampire hunters’ from the beginning of the story…  First published in 2011. ***       Chapter 1: “First Blood” page 1  page 2   page 3  page 4  page 5  page 6   page 7   page 8   page 9  page 10   page 11   page 12   page 13   page 14   page…