Media Thanksgiving: The Grateful Hacks
We've asked our favorite media folk what they're thankful for this year, and they actually answered us. First up is former NY Press editor Jeff Koyen, who writes from the tiny Laotian island of Don Det, where the local beer is 80 cents per liter and the internet access is $6 per hour:
I'm thankful for the continued (if waning) power of the American passport; internet access in the most ridiculously remote parts of the world; lax drug laws in Southeast Asia — including but not limited to the coffee-and-ice-cream combination of yaba and Valium; loose Thai girls who insist on condoms; the New York Post's Travel section, which seems to like my ideas; and most importantly, colo-rectoid vaginoplasty, which makes the dreams of Bangkok's ladyboys come true.