Monthly Archives: June 2008

Dos and Don’t for Beijing Olympics

June 5, 2008 – 10:17 am

Pattaya’s a great town for freedom of the human spirit. You can do almost anything you want without incurring the attention of the police as long as you misbehave in a discreet manner. Example; I came out of my cul-de-sac onto Soi Bongkot. It was a little past dawn. A mini-van was stopped on the […]

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To Die In Pattaya

June 5, 2008 – 9:06 am

The day after Christmas 1977 was cold. Typical weather for the Lower East Side and I wished I had worn a sweater under my leather jacket, as I walked from St. Mark’s Place to the Bowery. Most everything was closed for the holiday. Not CBGBs. The Dead Boys were playing for the orphans of New […]

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Elect The N-Word

June 5, 2008 – 8:20 am

Jamie Parker called from Pattaya last night. I was already in bed. He was getting up from a night of drinking. There’s a twelve hour difference between Palm Beach and there. He’s already in the future. “How goes the hunt for a 90-year-old heiress?” Jamie dreams of my marriage to an wealthy dowager with three […]

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Beer Bless England

June 3, 2008 – 4:28 pm

The English like to drink. Beer courses in their veins in the general direction of Mayhem Station and London Transit decided this year to ban alcohol on the Tube. Yesterday was the last day of Beermas and thousands of the faithful celebrated the end of underground drinking with an impromptu party. Six stations were closed […]

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Bo Diddley RIP

June 3, 2008 – 11:59 am

“Is that one or three Ds?” I put in an extra L, but I’m sure that Bo Diddley, born Otha Ellas Bates ( no relations to the Bates of PYSCHO fame ) would forgive my misspelling, after all he rode one rift into history. WHO DO YOU LOVE, MONA, ROAD RUNNER et al are based […]

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