Category Archives: Drinking

Palm Beach Sunday

March 29, 2015 – 5:23 pm

In June 1 2008 I was living on Palm Beach. A barrier island off the Florida coast. So many of the mega-rich had migrated to their summer haunts of the Hamptons, Nantucket, and the South of France that the Sunday night streets of this exclusive resort felt, as if the Khmer Rouge had marched the […]

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Fenway’s First Beer

March 10, 2015 – 9:57 pm

back in 2011 my son Fenway and I were sitting with his mother at the Blue Moon Bar in Jomtien. Mam said that she wanted to check on the laundry. Fenway watched her across the soi. He gave me a smile and picked up my glass of icy Leo beer. “Chim dai, Dhim mai dai,” […]

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Moonshine, Masturbation, and Eclipses By Peter Nolan Smith

January 30, 2015 – 9:07 am

Children are cruel by nature. Young boys and girls instinctively bully the weak and ridicule the infirm. There was nothing funnier than a cheap trick at the cost of a poor unfortunate in keeping with the ageless adage, “Comedy is when a beggar falls down the stairs. Tragedy is when a duchess does.” In the […]

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Gym Rats Versus Beermas

January 24, 2015 – 2:34 pm

Back in the 80s Gold’s Gym had a ground floor gym off of Astor Place. Scores of fitness enthusiasts ran on treadmills and lifted weights visible to passers-by through large windows. My friend and I played basketball in Tompkins Square Park. 3 hours a day. Afterwards we like nothing better than to get our lawn […]

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Thai New Year’s Traffic Festival

January 2, 2015 – 9:17 am

When I was young, the radio listed the national traffic death toll on the holidays. As a tribute to our nation’s patriotism America scored the highest fatalities on the 4th of July. New Year’s Eve and St. Patrick’s Day were never close. These announcements were designed to warn the public about the dangers of driving […]

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