Monthly Archives: June 2008

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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Pattaya Railroad two-laner Jammed

June 3, 2008 – 10:18 am

In 1948 work was started on Boston’s Southeast Expressway, a highway designed to alleviate congestion on roadways heading to the South Shore. The six-laner road was opened several years later with its capacity predicted to be reach by 1970. Within two weeks there were traffic jams. Pattaya is also beset by traffic problems. Too many […]

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Coup Coo Coo Cha Choo

June 3, 2008 – 8:47 am

BANGKOK: The SET or Stock Exchange of Thailand fell yesterday amid rumors of a coup overthrowing the present government. Investors abandoned their holdings to withdraw profit reported by the Bangkok Post to be 21 million baht. $600,000 US. A blink of a second on the NYSE. So don’t panic yet, despite the police and army […]

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Yves St. Laurent RIP

June 2, 2008 – 6:44 pm

In the winter of 1985 my teenage French girlfriend left the apartment on Impasse Dantzig to meet with her modeling client. Her destination a 5-star hotel on the Rue de Rivoli was a marked counterpoint to our 15th arrondisement atelier. Candia was 17. Her rendezvous was with an Italian. I figured she would stay the […]

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