King Sihanouk's blog

Very cool. And he's in favor of gay marriage. Wow.

I got to get to know his granddaughter, Princess Rattana-Devi Norodom, a few years ago at the world AIDS conference in Barcelona - I helped her craft her address to the conference, and we hung out a bit as I was in charge of making sure everything went smoothly for her address, attendance, etc. Totally TOTALLY cool woman, and only in her mid-twenties. Her handlers were quite protective, as you can imagine with a "princess," but like I said, she was totally cool.

This is a picture I took of Her Royal Highness in the VIP area before her speech. And yes, of course, that's our man with her. (As an aside, you should have seen the crowd react when Clinton arrived on the stage. Almost a thousand people from around the world - including some of the most critical AIDS activists on the planet, people who were highly critical of the US - and they went nuts when Clinton arrived. We're talking rock star status. It's amazing the goodwill we have out there to be tapped into, if only we had a president who wasn't an idiot.)



I'm having a hard time finding the "blog" itself, but his Web site is cute, including some songs that he apparently played and recorded himself on, I think, a synthesizer (think Soviet cocktail hour (of which I've attended a few, but that's another story)).