Category Archives: Drinking

A Drinking Life 1958-2021

July 11, 2023 – 9:35 am

On his death bed the famed puritan preacher Cotton Mather said his last words, “Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all I feared, when I prayed against a hard death? O! I can bear this! I can bear it! I can bear it!” As his wife wiped his eyes, he concluded, “I am […]

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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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ANGUS

May 13, 2023 – 11:24 am

I had a Scottie in Paris 1980s Angus Not really mine. Bridget’s, But the Vogue model was rarely home. Angus and I were alone A lot We went drinking together Angus liked Kronenburg He lapped the beer from a dish On the bar Not much He wasn’t a serious drinker Preferred to be on the […]

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Ireland – ELK BOOKS The Last Issue

May 6, 2023 – 8:49 am

Jocko Weyland has published his last issue of ELK and included an excerpt from my journal entries from my long stay in the West of Ireland. 1997. Ballyconneely. Twenty-five years ago. Yeah, Todd and my stay in Ballyconneely was weird. September was fine ,but October grew grim and November the rains struck with a sodden […]

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DA CHICKEN FARM IN SIHANOUKVILLE by Peter Nolan Smith

April 14, 2023 – 8:31 am

In 2007 I was losing my mind. The mother of my daughter has deserted me to live in the hicks or ‘Bannok’. I had given up everything to move to Thailand and be a father. Angie’s mom was scared that I was planning to kidnap her. She was stupider than a bucket of mud. I […]

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