Monthly Archives: June 2012

Is this Gay – Louis CK

June 23, 2012 – 11:27 pm

Over the course of the last few months I have been posing hypothetical questions to my severely straight friend Mazin, while we’re smoking pot. “If you were in prison and were rooming with a Thai Ladyboy, would you have sex with her?” “No way.” Mazin comes from Iraq. He is macho in only the nicest […]

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The Beauty of Lao Khao

June 22, 2012 – 7:15 pm

Many western tourists to Thailand have been exposed to Mekhong Whiskey. The inexpensive golden rumlike liquor capably produces historic hang-overs for farangs and Thais. The blame for this morning-after hell lays not the 35% alcohol content, but the combination of distilled from 95% sugar cane/molasses and 5% rice, especially when mixed with Coke for a […]

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Bewitched And Beheaded

June 22, 2012 – 6:58 pm

The temperature in Saudi’s Najran Province bordering Yemen runs into the high 110s this time of the year with spikes into the low 140s. The name itself means thirsty, yet the highlands support dazzling forest in comparison to the sun-bleached deserts. There are even waterfalls in the mountains, but this week the province hit the […]

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Yellow Bus Bullies

June 22, 2012 – 1:54 am

School’s out for summer, but the promise of a long vacation didn’t prevent several middle-school boys for berating an elderly bus monitor with the intent to hurt her to the core. The video was seen by millions and kind-heated people donated almost a quarter of a million dollars to sent 68 year-old Karen Klein on […]

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Insect A La Carte Cart Crash

June 22, 2012 – 12:43 am

My greatest fear in my years in Pattaya was having a motorcycle accident with a scooter sidecar selling insects. The collision would send me flying into the slop of fried fly grubs, cockroaches, scorpions, and crickets. Of course Fenway’s mom as all Thais wife loves eating these exoskeletal delicacies. I don’t mind the grubs. They’re […]

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