Monthly Archives: July 2012

Premature Explosion ala the 4th

July 5, 2012 – 10:56 pm

The disaster of the Space Shuttle Challenger was witnessed by millions of Americans in horror. Ronald Reagan seemed at first perplexed by the booster rockets’ explosion, then realized the Shuttle and all its crew were lost in the fiery conflagration. I have long blamed that President and his administration for forcing NASA to launch in […]

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Haute Kathoey

July 5, 2012 – 4:33 am

Shock has been the standard trademark of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s fashion and this week the designer featured an East European transvestite at his Paris Haute Couture show. Fashionophiles applauded androgynous model tramping down the catwalk as a topping on the frosting. The Daily Mail’s photograph of Andrej Pejic were quite complimentary, although my search for other […]

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We Are Those Closest To Us

July 5, 2012 – 12:25 am

The other day my four year-old son and I were train-spotting on the bridge over the Siracha-Laem Chabang railway. A long freight train passed beneath us. After the caboose disappeared from sight I spit onto the tracks. Fenway followed my lead and spat a gob of drool into the air. He laughed with glee. Like […]

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Bad Opie

July 4, 2012 – 11:36 pm
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Tragedy at Laem Mae Phim

July 4, 2012 – 1:03 am

Written Jul 4, 2012 When my family moved south from Maine to a suburb south of Boston in 1960, my best friend and I vowed never to go swimming unless we were together. Chaney’s parents had a place on Lake Sebago. That summer was warm in New England. One day in August my mother received […]

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