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A Guy Walks Into a Bar in Brooklyn (Part 2 of 2)

By Roadmonkey | Published May 10, 2012

by Paul von Zielbauer (Continued from last week’s blog post) So I’m sitting at Denny’s Steak Pub – an island of working-class Caucasians floating in a sea of beer, surrounded by working-class South Asian immigrants, in Brooklyn’s Kensington neighborhood. The kind of place that can’t be bothered to change its sign outside even though it [...]

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Was Bruce Lee a Roadmonkey?

By Roadmonkey | Published April 24, 2012

The legendary Bruce Lee, a martial artist and student of philosophy, lived his life as if it were a series of opportunities, challenges and celebrations. In that regard, you could argue that he was living la vida Roadmonkey in his own, Bruce Lee way. (This is what happens when you stay up too late watching [...]

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Why I Created Roadmonkey

By Roadmonkey | Published April 19, 2012

People have asked me to explain the genesis of Roadmonkey. Here it is. I’ll start with a sentence I wrote, in 2010, for MindFood, an Australian monthly that asked me to write a first-person piece on “My Story”: In 2008, while still on  The New York Times staff, I started Roadmonkey Adventure Philanthropy on the [...]

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The Meaning of Roadmonkey

By Roadmonkey | Published March 29, 2012

Many people ask us what Roadmonkey means. Not literally but figuratively. Except non-English speakers, who actually do want to know the dictionary definition of road • monk • ey. (There isn’t one). Roadmonkey means all of the things below. But it also means what you have come to think of Roadmonkey. The definition lives [...]

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