Monthly Archives: March 2007

What’s Up A Go Go Pattaya

March 7, 2007 – 1:30 am

“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.” I love that line from the Human League’s DON’T YOU WANT ME BABY, only in Pattaya men tend to fall in love with go go girls dancing around a firepole. I fall in love with them too although only from a distance. Not that I’m […]

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Nicky Barnes Harlem gangster

March 5, 2007 – 7:13 am

Back in the 70s I hung out with almost everyone. fools, whores, dealers, politicians, intellectuals, nuns, et al. Most of them now are retired as am I, but the other day I read about Nicky Barnes in the Herald Tribune. Blast from the past.

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Macha Bucha Day

March 3, 2007 – 8:47 am

The bars of Pattaya are shut tonight and tomorrow and the next day. Normally you can buy a beer from your local store. Not today. Thais are going cold-turkey for Macha Bucha Day, which celebrates the day 1250 Arhantas’ or Enlightened One came to hear Tujah or Buddha preach the principles of the Buddhism, called “The […]

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Anna Nicole Smith RIP (Finally)

March 2, 2007 – 11:33 pm

Saturday Night Live held a comedic death watch for Generalissimo Franco during its first season in 1975. After Spanish dictator’s death the joke lingered and Chevy Chase would report with solemnity. ”This breaking news just in. Generalísimo Francisco Franco is still dead!” Well, Anna Nicole Smith is still dead too. In accordance with her wishes the starlet had finally […]

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Near Naked No No Thailand

March 1, 2007 – 11:52 pm

When I first came to Thailand twenty years ago, men never wore shorts and women dressed conservatively while outside the house. Thais are still very prudish about personal nudity. They laugh at the Russian men in their tiny g-strings, while the men ogle the farang tourist sunbathers bare-breasting their bodies on the beach. There were go-go […]

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