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My Bangkok comrade Justin Bratton produced this video by splicing downloaded highlights of the protests into footage we shot of our festivities.  For those of you who have to yet to partake, Song Kran is a three-day celebration of the Thai New Year and is indeed commemorated by drenching everybody else in sight (we are not simply weirdo expats with a fetish for Super Soakers and water balloons).  And in 2009, thousands of “Reds” were simultaneously attempting a Coup d’etat.  Good times.

Door to the stall in the men’s bathroom of an office building where I taught a class on the 36th floor. When I study this picture and think about its suggestive meanings, I realize how difficult it would be to find such a piece of artwork in a similar building in the U.S.