Monthly Archives: July 2008

Madonna Dogs the Yankee

In the summer of 1982 a young girl came to my apartment on East 10th Street. She was looking to sublet it, while I was in Europe. Her name was Madonna. She checked the bathtub in the kitchen and the water closet off the small living room, then said, “I’ll think about it.”

Cyber-Crime Cops on the Prowl in Bangkok

It’s said that 90% of crimes are solved by good police work; ie investigations by diligent detectives and the officers of Bangkok’s cyber-crime unit are bringing a new tool online to pursue hardened criminals such as webmasters of Thai porno sites offering users explicit sex photos for free or even worse for money. A crime […]

Vaseline Girls in Bangkok

Vaseline girls paraded through Bangkok to promote the hydrocarbon mixture derived from our old friend, petroleum jelly, whose discovery dates back to 1859 in Texas. First considered a cure-all for burns, people soon found divergent applications for the all-purpose substance. Company spokespeople extolled it as a curative for cuts and scraps, although doctors have never […]

Hurricane Bertha / Palm Beach

I’m living in Palm Beach. The Atlantic is about 100 yards away from the house on King’s Road. A Storm surge of twenty feet would put me under water and National Hurricane Center has alerted the public that the storm Bertha has strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. It’s generating winds […]

Thailand Blamed For Viking HIV

The statistics are clear: Thailand is the country where most Norwegian men infected with the HIV-infection while traveling abroad.