World Hum’s Most Read: Aug. 30-Sept. 5

What We Loved This Week: Jose Feliciano, Rub’ al Khali and Raw Oysters

Don’t Be Cruel: Traveling ‘Elvis’ Draws Attention, Groans

It’s Not Easy Being Green and Crucified

A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different?

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Paul Theroux: Invisible Man on a Ghost Train

Jim Benning asks the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” about his new book, aging and the challenge of disappearing in the age of the BlackBerry

Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

My Travels, My Feet

After taking one too many headless torso shots of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square

Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling

Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.

‘Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay’ Not Rushdie-esque?

Erm...why do criticsm bother writing about these movies at all? It’s not exactly like Harold and Kumar are out to get much more than a few guffaws! :)

There’s a much funnier, sharper and cheaper comedy about Guantanamo Bay on iTunes, called ‘Jesus: The Guantanamo Years’.

“Way beyond superficial religious satire… Absorbing, intricately woven, challenging and… highly entertaining.”
- Malcolm Hay, TimeOut

“Displays superb humanity… destined to be a Fringe favourite… Miraculous. *****”
- The National Student

Jesus Christ returns to earth, but He doesn’t get through U.S. immigration because He’s a bearded, Middle-Eastern guy, prepared to die as a martyr.

Christ is detained and interrogated under the Patriot Act. He is then sent to Guantanamo Bay, which He describes as “a maximum-security prison, designed and run by Kentucky Fried Chicken: there are horrible uniforms; battery-size wire-mesh cages; and most of the staff are ignorant teenagers with no alternative career prospects.”

In His first one-man show for almost two millennia, Jesus talks candidly about His time in Guantanamo, His relationship with His Father, and His on-going legal battle with Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

This award-winning one-man show has delighted live audiences from the Edinburgh Fringe to the USA, and from London’s West End to Pakistan. Within a month of its on-line launch in March 2008, it reached the iTunes Top 10 Comedy Albums in the UK, Finland, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden and Japan.

“ Well-thought-out and cleverly written… a truly fresh take on the US, Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror…The face of this year’s [Edinburgh] Fringe”
- The Scotsman

“The greatest stand-up story ever told… Funny, thoughtful, impassioned…Abie [Philbin] Bowman deserves a comic sainthood.”
- The Stage

“A rising star on the Irish stand-up scene”
- Time