Category Archives: Bangkok

Yellow Teeth – Part 1

February 24, 2008 – 9:27 pm

SEMI-FICTION by Pascha Ray I’ve been arrested several times in my life. Age 12 for vandalizing an abandoned missile base. Age 21 for driving over a bed of flowers at a girl’s college. Age 25 in NY for running an after hour club. Age 31 in Paris for writing a love poem on the British […]

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Detriot Disses Thailand

February 21, 2008 – 11:03 pm

In BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE the director Michael Moore compares Detroit’s perchance for murder with Windsor, its Canadian counterpart across the river. The Motor City’s murder annual rate runs into the hundreds, while the mayor of Windsor couldn’t place the last violent demise for several seconds and then said, “Yes, it was two guys from Detroit. They got […]

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Thailiban hunt Thai Valentine Lovers

February 13, 2008 – 11:10 pm

Saudi Arabia banned Valentine’s Day as an anathema against the Wahabi sects strictures on love and romance. No flowers. No cards. No hearts. Or Else.   And ’or else’ in the Saudi Kingdom could earn punishments ranging from a stern lecture to a beheading depending on the temperment of the judges, who regard man and woman alone as a […]

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Nothing Last Forever – Bangkok

January 17, 2008 – 12:04 am

http://www.bangkokeyes.com/ MIDNIGHT HOUR from this informative Bangkok-based website came out with a 2007 list of recently defunct clubs and entertainment venues. Our favorite had to be the Prasithipol Dance Bar.

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Paradise Paved over for Shopping Malls

August 9, 2007 – 11:58 pm

My first visit to Bangkok was in 1990. I stayed at the Malaysia Hotel on Soi Duplei. The trees were bordered by sylvan compounds and I played basketball at the military school next to the Lumpini Muay-Thai stadium. Patpong was a twenty-minute walk through small sois. The city retained the charm of its past, although […]

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