birthday party: befriended a 43 year old biker, and he drove me around saigon, all along the river, then he took me to a sidewalk bar that served beer on the cheap, like half a buck a beer, and i met a foursome of toothless old men, and one of them spoke english, so we got drunk, and he would translate our conversation in vietnamese for his buddies. then i rode the motorcycle again, and pretended that i was a chicken, and that i got the bird flu, and that i was the terror of the town, screaming woooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa weeeeeeeeeee all the way home.