Monthly Archives: June 2023

The Fire Of Rampant Consumerism

June 7, 2023 – 6:35 pm

In October 1973 an industrial neighborhood in Chelsea, Massachusetts was burned to the ground after a row of chemical storage warehouses burst into flames. The fire could be seen from fifteen miles away in the Blue Hills, but that conflagration was nothing in comparison to the last week’s toxic waste fire at Ruihai Logistics in […]

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PURE AS THE RAIN by Peter Nolan Smith

June 7, 2023 – 11:14 am

Fuck the seventy-seven virgins, give me Pattaya – Pascha Ray One night in August the monsoon was having its way with the Eastern Seaboard. Sleets of rain slashed through the few remaining palms on the back street between Soi Bukhao and 3rd Road. The Happy Lodge inn served as a refuge from the crowds of […]

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BURN CHELSEA BURN

June 7, 2023 – 8:48 am

In the early 1970s Chelsea, Massachusetts on the north bank of the Mystic River exemplified a failed post-industrial city. The Expressway split the city in two and thousands of people had moved out of the working-class community throughout the 50s and 60s. The coffin was nailed shut on October 14, 1973, when the rag shop […]

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Winchester Gun Club – Jomtien -2007

June 6, 2023 – 9:51 pm

For the last months of 2007 the facade of the old Beggar’s Arms in Jomtien had been undergoing renovation. The venerable Jomtien institution had been closed for the better part of a year. Someone had dropped money into resurrecting the short-time bar under the guise of the Winchester Club on Soi Wat Boon. I used […]

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Dog Is Man’s Best Friend

June 5, 2023 – 2:15 am

Why Some Men Have Dogs And Not Wives: 1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name. 3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 4. A dog’s parents never visit. 5. […]

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