Via Thai Net City and through the kind benediction of my obsessive tendencies, I got my hands on a copy of Pop Angels, a Thai pop supergroup featuring Pim from Zaza. I would likely, at this point in my life, buy a recording of a dog barking for sixty consecutive minutes if you told me that somewhere around the forty-ninth minute you could overhear Pim saying "mai pen rai" to her gardener. I am who I am.

There's this old episode of Law and Order about the Sarah Jane Olson/Kathleen Soliah case, and the question it poses, broadly, is: when do get to let go of who we once were? The episode in question involves murder, so the stakes are high, but the question's general: do we reach a point of historical distance when we either can or must completely release some ideas that once seemed hard-wired into our consciousness?