Robin Hemley: A Brief History of an Odd Bar
Remembering the Hobbit House and its iconoclast owner.
By Robin Hemley
I hesitated to enter the Hobbit House my first time in Manila. Simply entering seemed a betrayal of my self-conscious sense of ethics as a liberal white American. I imagined dwarf tossing, dwarf wrestling, drunken and demeaning displays to entertain little-brained…
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