Monthly Archives: January 2011

State of the Union Speech 2012

January 25, 2011 – 9:13 pm

My prediction for Obama’s speech this evening is that there will be no announcements about the legalization of marijuana or a ban on torture or an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan or the outlawing of potato chips and fast food. The President will instead try to rally the nation around the idea that our eyes have […]

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The Happiness of a Vespa

January 24, 2011 – 9:24 pm

“Riding a Vespa is like having sex with a transvestite. It’s a lot of fun until one of your friends see you doing it.” Of course it’s always fun if you have a naked girl riding behind you. That wasn’t the case in the summer of 1966, when I rode on the back of a […]

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Incommunicado

January 24, 2011 – 8:12 pm

Back at the end of the last century there was a short time when the world was devoid of cell phones and computers. Communications between distant countries was a chore. While in Bangkok I would hire a tuk-tuk for the short trip from the Malaysia Hotel to the Bangkok GPO on Charoen Krung Road. The […]

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THe Curse of Khruschev

January 20, 2011 – 9:19 pm

After my youngest brother’s death from AIDS in 1995 I traveled to the Orient with the intention of visiting several holy sites to help send Michael’s soul into the aether. I landed in Bangkok and booked a flight to Kunming in Yunnan, China’s southernmost province. I skipped the offered tours of the Shalin Stone Forest […]

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Kingsley Amis Quote of the Day

January 20, 2011 – 8:38 pm

“I have a hang-over bad enough to think I’m sprouting antlers.” – Kingsley Amis And I like many know that feeling.

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