Letters From Uzbekistan: Sex Tourism, a literature of misunderstanding

This brief conversation really occurred this past weekend: Stranger Lives in XXXXXXX, Asia SAT 8:44PM S: Hey, can you guide me to having sex in Tashkent? SAT 11:09PM Rick: You have to find out whether Arslan Levantinov is minister of tourism first. S: Umm why? SUN 8:06AM Rick: He’s my only connection in Uzbekistan and I am unsure whether he is still in charge or in prison. SUN 10:59AM S: Ohkay Can you just give an address of some adult place? SUN 1:53PM Rick: No, sorry, I only have accounts from people who have been there, with names that are often clearly false…The best thing would be to consult a taxi driver. Despite what you might hear, taxi drivers throughout the world are for the most part quite honest. SUN 6:55PM S: Okay thank you Sent from Mobile Chat Conversation End

 

 

 

Letters from Uzbekistan Googling Dick Cheney from Jaslyk Prison

in today’s mailbox, this letter from my friend in the tourist ministry of Uzbekistan (until I hear different)

 

HI Rick

 

Longg time but I think it was your turn not that it matters. brief note make of it what you will…True fact

TREU FACT:

If you ‘google’ ‘Dick Cheney’ from any computer in the grounds of Jaslyk Prison (remember I pointed it out, over by where the sea is fleeing to the desert?) this is all that comes up:

On the entire screen I mean. THe computer locks and this is what you call desk backdrop.

don’t forgtet

your old pal,

 

Arslan Levantinov