Author: Billy Antonio

Essential Tips for Planning Your Trip to Vietnam

What to See in Northern Vietnam Northern Vietnam is a picture book Vietnam at its best. This region is home to the rolling hills, misty mountain passes, emerald rice paddies and swishing palm trees of your imagination, with a cooler climate, and infinitely more complex ethnic diversity than almost anywhere else in Vietnam. Hanoi Hanoi […]

SmartPhones Make Phone Calls Irrelevant, While Becoming Irrelevant Themselves

Cell phones have become an essential part of daily life in the Western hemisphere. Friends organize their plans and schedules using cooperative calendars and ever more advanced group chats. Work is communicated between texts and emails, quick calls that fly a mile a minute. Long meetings between boss and employee can now be reduced to […]

Girl Talk: I’m A Gamer

Last Sunday morning, I zip-lined through a South American jungle, shot and killed several enemies, grabbed afully loaded rocket launcher, and blew up a jeep filled with incoming hostiles. Once clear, I crept to an enemyoccupied mansion that held the lost treasure I planned to steal. I climbed undetected up the side of thestructure, pulled […]

Sex Fail: He Cried In Bed

When I met Eric* at a friend’s birthday party, my first thought was that he was a man’s man. He was a six-foot-tall, broad shouldered carpenter from the Bronx with bulging arms covered in a myriad of swirling tattoos that strained the sleeves of his polo shirt. He caught me staring more than once. At […]