Category Archives: Bangkok

Mad Dogs and Englishmen in Riot Gear

May 23, 2010 – 8:01 pm

Many of my friends considered my flying to Thailand an act of a madman. I explained that Fenway and Mam lived far south of Bangkok and I wouldn’t be going to the capitol until the next week, if calm had been restored by the military. US and UK embassy warned their nationals to avoid Bangkok. […]

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Bangkok Aflame 5/20

May 20, 2010 – 2:33 am

This is a new report from the Old Roue from his rooftop on Soi Nana. I love his view. Now the situation has all gone to hell. Better in one way – the protest is over the leaders arrested, but as a final parting shot from the more crazy of the crazies, many big Bangkok […]

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The Reach of Old Blue Eyes

May 18, 2010 – 7:16 pm

America’s interest in the world is normally focused on terrorists and France’s inability to follow the political edicts of the White House. This heart-felt isolationism has spawned a myth of only 10% of Americans possess a passport. My fellow countrymen rarely leave the confines of the Land of the Free. Our last president’s only trip […]

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Nana Plaza Open

May 17, 2010 – 8:13 am

The revolution will not interfere with the selling of flesh. Reports of a curfew are false. Bangkok’s go-go bars are open and the beer drinkers are flocking to their haunts armed with the awareness that once there was many and now they are few. The US and UK embassies have issued warning for their citizens […]

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Holiday-Makers from Bangkok

May 17, 2010 – 8:11 am

Everyone at work suggested that my trip to Thailand be postponed until after the ‘red shirts’ retreat from Bangkok. My sources in the capitol said that the Thaksin supporters were far from ready to abandon their barricades, especially after the assassnation of their committed leader ‘seh daeng’. A sniper bullet to the head. Chances of […]

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