Monthly Archives: April 2007

Iran raves about 300 movie in Bangkok

Last year I bought THE 300 SPARTANS (1962) from my favorite DVD dealer, a deaf-mute rice farmer. His uplifted thumbs indicated the copy was 100%. He was right and the childhood favorite spun the heroic tale of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans and their allies withstood the onslaught of the Persian king. They died to the […]

Youtube ban Thailand part 2

The website YouTube was banned in Thailand this Wednesday, thanks to their refusal to remove a video offending the nation’s sensibility over lese majeste. The government has also been moving swiftly against any websites critical of the regime, especially those with any suspected connections to the last PM, despite protests of censorship from the not-too-loyal opposition. The minister in charge of […]

The Castle Fetish Bar Pattaya

Several years back the Castle opened across the soi from the Buffalo Bar on 3rd Road. The Pattaya branch of the Bangkok S&M club flourished without my ever seeing a single black-shirted entering its doors. Only sexy Asian girls in black fetish outfits. Guess I’m straight. Anyway my drinking comrades at the Buffalo and I discussed […]

Daily Spam

Everyday this site receives about 200 plus spam posts selling porno, sex products, prescription narcotics, anti-nicotine meds, weight loss programs, debt solutions, and baldness cures, loss recovery as well as pick-up truck offers. None for Jesus or the GOP, so that I have to think the spam marketers are focusing on overweight sexually frustrated, indebted, perverted […]

April Fool’s Day – Bangkok Post

This article appeared in yesterdays’s Bangkok Post editorial section, proving April fool’s Day has a universal appeal. Same as Pamela Anderson.