Monthly Archives: December 2008

Cook County Crooks

December 9, 2008 – 4:03 pm

JFK supposedly won the 1960 presidential election thanks to Mayor Daley stealing a hundred thousand ballots for the Nixon ticket. Illinois electoral votes pushed the Massachusetts senator over the top. A Herald-Tribune reporter later wrote that he found names of the dead who had voted in Chicago, along with 56 people from one house. With […]

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Long Live the King 2008

December 9, 2008 – 4:03 pm

December 5 Thailand celebrated Wan Pah or Father’s Day. Long live the King.

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Miss Siam 1934

December 9, 2008 – 4:02 pm
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Aussie Writer Languishes in Bangkok Jail

December 9, 2008 – 4:00 pm

Lost in the chaos of recent months is the case of the imprisoned Australian author accused of insulting the nation’s royal family in his novel. His most recent attempt to gain freedom through bail failed and the 41 year-old author appears set to spend the rest of 2008 without any assistance from the Canberra government. […]

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CBGBS SCHISM

December 8, 2008 – 5:57 pm

I hung out at CBGBs from 1976-1981 as a regular. Lisa Krystal waved persona gratis past the paying customers. Her brother wandered through the club in a daze. He liked playing chess. His mother acted like a vicious den mother, while Hilly dominated the scene from bookings to managing some of punk’s top groups such […]

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