Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Balance of Excess

April 13, 2016 – 6:07 pm

Back in the late 80s Gold Gyms opened a place on Lafayette Street in the East Village. I hadn’t thought anyone would go in such a counter-culture neighborhood, but within three days the place was packed by punks, artists, dancers, bankers et al. “I played basketball. Street. Gyms were my thing. Each to his own, […]

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DAZED BY ZEPPELIN by Peter Nolan Smith

April 12, 2016 – 12:57 pm

Everyone in the world has a phone. I can call Fenway’s mom in Thailand and Mam will pick up the phone on the other side of the world. This advancement is a miracle, considering only twenty years ago phone service to foreign countries was a costly and timely expenditure. Now international connections are linked by […]

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Thai Dating Rules and No Nos

April 12, 2016 – 9:13 am

Several years ago I read the weekend Bangkok Post’s GURU, which featured an article from Yanisa of LOVE RULES about GIRLS YOU SHOULD NOT DATE. For the most part she was right on the money about not dating your friend’s ex, your best friend’s sister, your ex-girlfriend’s sister or best friend, a work associate, your […]

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72 Whores

April 9, 2016 – 11:23 am

The Koran or Qur’an condemns suicide. Paradise or 72 virgins is forbidden the suicide. The legend comes from a single passage in a Hadith. “The smallest reward for the people of Paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives.” Wives not virgins, because sex with a virgin is always a trial, […]

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The Void Of War

April 9, 2016 – 11:10 am

troy, chaos, saudi murderers, peace in our time In the 12th or 13th Century the Achaeans amassed an invasion army to vanquish the City of Troy. The formidable walls of their rival resisted nine years of siege, but finally Ulysses tricked the Trojans with a wooden horse secretly filled with Greek warriors. That night Troy […]

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