Monthly Archives: June 2008

Thai Condo Crash

June 10, 2008 – 10:38 am

The Nation added a note of caution to property owners with a report that up to 50% of condominums will fail in Bangkok due to over-supply. This glut will create another series of ghost buildings to match the 100s of deserted office buildings left over from the 1999 crash. Even the old adage ‘location location location’ will not grant […]

By Peter | Posted in Asia, real estate, Thailand | Comments (0)

Prince Turns 50

June 9, 2008 – 12:56 pm

In December of 1982 I was walking down East 14th Street with Richie Boy Winick. Our destination was a nightclub or a bar in the neighborhood. Passing under the marquee of the Palladium, I spotted Benji was at the ropes of the concert hall. I had worked with the portly Jamaican at Arthur Weinstein’s infamous after-hour […]

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Finally Mr. Mom

June 9, 2008 – 11:55 am

In my youth there was an urban myth that Harvard was offering $1,000,000 to the first man to give birth. 1994 saw the now California governor play a pregnant man in the movie JUNIOR and that spoof was as close as man came to breaking the pregnancy planet, except in isolated cases of alien abduction. […]

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The Beauty Of Language

June 9, 2008 – 8:33 am

I’ve lived in several foreign countries. Germany, France, Mexico, Indonesia, and Thailand. You can usually find someone to speak English albeit their version of the language and in order to be understood you dumbize your speech. After a few months you end up sounding like ET after drinking too many beers. “Me want go home.” […]

By Peter | Posted in Beauty, Education, language | Comments (0)

OLIVER BOOTH by David Desmond

June 5, 2008 – 2:11 pm

I’m not sure it’s good to write reviews after drinking two beers. Heineken 16 oz. Not much else to do in the full heat of a broiling Palm Beach afternoon, except drink and porno surf. OLIVER BOOTH on Lingua Strada is a 2nd self-published novel by the nephew of Donald Trump. Most vanity press publications […]

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