Dispatch 27: Watch! Inside The Khun Han Ginger Factory. PART ONE.
Inside Northeast Thailand’s Fastest Growing Ginger Operation. Part 1. Sayam Brand: Sisaket. Isaan In the heart of Khun Han District, in Thailand’s Sisaket Province, there’s a striking body of water — a man-made lake known as the Huai Tha Reservoir. Looming over its western shore is an enormous yellow building that nearly everyone in this […]
PROMO: Live From The Margins RADIO SHOW is Back!
January 8, 2026 Live From the Margins RADIO SHOW is Back Radio Dispatch 7 — The Maria Incident PROMO After a short hiatus spent handling production work behind the scenes, Live From the Margins is back — and settling comfortably into its stride. The show has always lived somewhere between formats. Part talk radio. Part […]
LISTEN: Dispatch 26: Radio Dispatch 007. The Maria Incident
Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to The Latest Episode: The Maria Incident Live From the Margins — Radio Dispatch 7 The Maria Incident There’s a song by Steely Dan called Any Major Dude Will Tell You that feels like it was written for moments like this. A quiet anthem for survival. […]
Dispatch 25: Watch! Isaan Bullfrogs and Asian Swamp Eels
Saturday Night in the Swamp No sense in letting a good swamp hole go to waste. Out here in deep Isaan, standing water is never just standing water. It’s a question. A temptation. A dare. And for young guys especially, it’s nearly impossible to walk past a muddy depression in the ground without wanting to […]
Field Notes: On Being on the Wrong Path (and Staying There)
There’s a particular feeling that’s hard to describe unless you’ve lived inside it: the sense that you’re existing on the wrong timeline. Not just unhappy. Not just bored. Off. Wrong career. Wrong city. Wrong relationship. Wrong version of yourself moving through days that don’t quite belong to you. You can function there. You can even […]
Dispatch 24: Watch! Sak Yant | Magical Tattoos, Sacred Lineage, and Trust
Sak Yant: Magical Tattoos and the Weight of Intention Originating in the ancient Khmer Empire—now called Cambodia—Sak Yant is a spiritual practice of tattooing that dates back well over a thousand years. Ninth century. Before borders. Before they mattered. Sak means to tap, or to inscribe. Yant comes from the Sanskrit yantra—a sacred design, a […]
Dispatch 23 – WATCH! Isaan Funeral. Raw. Unedited.
Filed December 21, 2025 Walking Papa Home: Five Days of Ritual, Love, and the Unbroken Thread Between Worlds Most people only witness a funeral from the outside. They show up clean, sit in a plastic chair, listen to a few rehearsed words, and then step back into the sunlight as if death were something that […]
Dispatch 22 – WATCH! Hidden Forest Temple: Part Two
Filed December 14, 2025 Forest Temple – Part Two Just eight kilometers from our village lies one of the most energy-dense, mysterious forest temples in all of Thailand: Wat Tham Sarapong. Tucked near the Cambodian border, this site was once home to people from diverse backgrounds who came together to form the original settlement of […]
Dispatch 21 – VIDEO: A 30-Year Recluse of the Deep Forest: The Day Everything Tilted
Filed December 10, 2025 Brother of the Deep Forest: The Day Everything Tilted There are encounters in life that feel less like accidents and more like pages torn from a book you didn’t know you were already in. Yesterday was one of those days. It began as a simple pull, a gentle intuition from […]
Dispatch 20 – VIDEO: Lan Ta Sok – Buddha’s Footprint
Filed December 8, 2025 Lan Ta Sok: Buddha’s Footprint. Throughout the Buddhist cultural sphere — stretching from India all the way to the far edges of Southeast and East Asia — the presence of the Buddha lingers. Not as a historical etching into the soil, necessarily, but as atmosphere, as inheritance, as a quiet current […]
Dispatch 19 – VIDEO: Wat Pa Jao Veh: DO NOT ENTER!
Filed December 5, 2025 Wat Pa Jao Veh: A Buddhist Temple You Won’t Find On Any Map. NARRATED. Wat Pah Jow Way is one of a handful of hidden forest temples scattered across the Isaan provinces. This one sits deep in remote Sisaket, barely ten kilometers from the Cambodian border. You reach it by following […]
Dispatch 18 – VIDEO: Bun Kathin and Coconut Rice
Filed December 3, 2025 Bun Kathin Festival – A Glimpse from the Village (Northeast Thailand) The Bun Kathin festival is a major annual merit-making event celebrated by Theravada Buddhists across Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. It marks the end of the rainy season retreat (Vassa), bringing entire villages together in spiritual offering and community joy. […]
Dispatch 17 — Afraid to Fly. WATCH.
Filed December 1, 2025 AFRAID TO FLY Afraid to Fly — More of a Flight Log Than a Field Note. (Click image or here to watch video) Not exactly a Dispatch From The Margins. I get it. We’re going off script here for just a minute. This dispatch comes from Willie. I’ve had it in […]
Dispatch 16 — Why This Project Exists. What’s The Point?
Filed November 29, 2025 Why This Project Exists …and why it just might matter to someone like you. The following is a true account. It all started with, and still revolves around, a book.A mostly true tale about a guy named Willie. Willie Lyonsan was born and raised in a no-stoplight farming town in Mid-Michigan. […]
Dispatch 15 — The Mob Called About The Cowboys: LISTEN
Click the play button below and listen Your browser does not support the audio element. The Mob Called About The Cowboys Filed: November 24, 2025 Radio Dispatch 6 NEW RADIO DISPATCH LIVE FROM THE MARGINS Click the image or here to listen. This is Live From the Margins — a story-driven radio episode built primarily […]
Dispatch 14 — The Snow Monkeys of Nagano Japan: WATCH
Filed: November 24, 2025 NEW VIDEO DISPATCH: LIVE FROM THE MARGINS Click the image or here to watch the film. Breathtaking.=================================Today we’re going to venture out to something a little less “one-of-a-kind” but equally awe-inspiring. Jigokudani Yaen Kōen, Nagano Prefecture. Japan. The Snow Monkeys! Five hours by bullet train from my base in Kyoto. And […]
Dispatch 13 — Fire in the Hole. A Sijo in Kentucky: LISTEN
Listen to this latest dispatch below Your browser does not support the audio element. Fire in the Hole: A Sijo and Kentucky Filed: November 23, 2025 Radio Dispatch 5 NEW RADIO DISPATCH LIVE FROM THE MARGINS Click the image or here to listen. You’re not going to want to miss this one. Oscar Slamp checks […]
Dispatch 12 — The Rice Harvest Part One: WATCH
Filed: November 22, 2025 Dispatch 6 THE RICE HARVEST: PART ONE It’s rice harvest season again. Tag along on another beautifully quiet morning in the village…the kind where the air still feels cool, and the hum of daily life starts slow. As the kids head off to school, the farmers are already out in the […]
Dispatch 11 — A Calm Morning in The Village, Visiting The Matriarchs: WATCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpv6onwsMNg&vq=hd1080 Filed: November 15, 2025 Tag along and enjoy a slow morning in rural Thailand — soft light spilling over the rice fields, cows moving in quiet procession toward the horizon. From there we visit the two original matriarchs of the village: women who’ve seen nearly a century of harvests and festivals. One, the village […]
Oscar Slamp: The UK Gets It!
Filed: August 10, 2025 Oscar Slamp: The UK Gets It Seems word’s out across the pond — and it didn’t come from a press release, a polite email blast, or some PR intern who calls me “Oskar” in subject lines.It came the old way: somebody read the thing, loved it, and couldn’t shut up about […]
Bread, Circuses, and the Cupertino Dummy Factory:
Filed: July 24, 2025 Bread, Circuses, and the Cupertino Dummy Factory: Can I Have That With a Side of Scroll Drool, Please? A Manifesto from the Margins on Sovereignty, Screens, and Breaking the Feed. By Oscar Slamp Let’s talk about the scroll. That hypnotic, bottomless pit of thumb-jiggling slot machine nonsense we call “content.” Aza Raskin […]
About Louie
Filed: July 18, 2025, About Louie Willie’s Dog, Louie. An excerpt from MOSTLY TRUE TALE: ROOFIED IN TOKYO. Scene 5, The Maria Incident. Willie rescued him from a shelter in mid Michigan and both their lives changed forever. …Not your Westminister variety Boston Bull, Lou was thicker-set and blocky. His forty pounds pressed the outer […]
Scene 3 A Sijo and Kentucky
Filed: July 12, 2025, Lexi lit the spark Excerpt: Scene 3 The Starlite – Vacancy. It looked like it hadn’t seen a renovation since Elvis faked his death. A horseshoe of tired little rooms wrapped around a parking lot the color of scorched toast. A single bulb flickered above the office door. Willie parked under […]
Something Strange Happened a Few Days Ago
Filed: July 8, 2025, The Reveal Thanks to my wife, and the deep ancestral roots she carries into this part of the world, I’ve experienced things most people only brush against in dreams. Soul-level things. Things that defy language, because language was never designed to hold that kind of truth. There’s an occurrence in the […]
Found in a Tin Roof Bar Near Cambodia Border
Filed: July 2, 2025, somewhere near the Cambodia border. You ever get so empty the wind blows straight through you, like you’re not even real? That’s how I found Willie. Or maybe that’s how he found me. Depends on which one of us you believe. It was a few weeks after the fallout—after the rescue, […]