this is the Salty portion of todays presentation.. and yes it’s as salty as a dead seahorse up in this mug. lets start with the Pirate Asses in Somalia.. they got to speak with the Lil 12 year old girl. now they go showing they ass by not even tossing the baby a chunkachedda on they ducatdrop....

This is an article that was in the train newspaper today that got my attention: Mums kill their boys Women in Papua New Guinea's Highland region are killing their male babies to end a tribal fight that has raged for more than 20 years. Two women from the Eastern Highlands told PNG's National newspap...

In my dissertation on word-order change in the Austronesian languages of New Guinea, I reviewed some of the earliest published typological research in the area. Here is a glimpse of what obsessed some of the earliest European researchers. Over most of the territory occupied by Austronesian (AN) lang...

Some random links and news relating to PNG: Motu Koita people want compensation for colonialization: one unexpectedly interesting thing about this article is its avoidance of the terms ‘tribe’ or ‘indigenous’ — ‘tribe’ is mentioned once but stays out of the ...

Filed under: Oceania, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecotourism, Budget Travel Let's set this straight. According to hard evidence I have gathered, Victor Flanagan, an Australian also known as "Naked Nomad," didn't walk around naked all the time. He wore a sarong when walking through towns and a pair ...

I received an email newsletter a couple of days ago from a friend and missionary, Bill Page, who is doing a wonderful work in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.  Here is one part of the letter:   “On Tuesday night I prayed for a man named George who had been stabbed through the leg by ...

From Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds—On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea, by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998), pp. 224-225:From the air, my first view of Wamena was a broad, grassy valley dotted with traditional Dani hamlets surrounded by inc...

From Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds—On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea, by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998), pp. 186-187:Father Pat is an Irishman for whom Gaelic is a first language. He is one of the new style of Roman Catholic missionarie...

From Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds—On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea, by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998), pp. 153-154 (NYT book review here): Afektaman is a pretty little village overlooking the range which lies to the south of Telefomin...

            A friend of mine, an Australian named Bill Page, sent this picture of a recent pastors’ training meeting in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.  When Laurie and I lived there, we attended meetings like these, full of dynamism, power and...