Category Archives: fashion

Haute Kathoey

Shock has been the standard trademark of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s fashion and this week the designer featured an East European transvestite at his Paris Haute Couture show. Fashionophiles applauded androgynous model tramping down the catwalk as a topping on the frosting. The Daily Mail’s photograph of Andrej Pejic were quite complimentary, although my search for other […]

Thai Ties

Every time I visit my tailor for shirts, he asks why I don’t buy any ties. I tell Pinky that I wore them for most of my life and don’t see the point of wearing them in Pattaya. Like who am I trying to impress? My drunken friends or the madam of the Buffalo Bar? […]

Fashion Faux-Pas in Pattaya

Pattaya is a well-known beach resort for a variety of reasons, but the fashion consciousness of its male farang population is certainly not one of the drawing points. The town boasts more sweep-over hair-dos than a General MacArthur lookalike jamboree and a surprising number of gentlemen sport beards and moustaches better suited a b-grade pirate […]

END OF THE WORLD / Skeeter Davis

In 1963 country singer Skeeter Davis struck gold with END OF THE WORLD and the song amazing reached the Top 5 in the R&B charts ie colored charts. A good song is always a good song, unless sung by Pat Boone. For some reason I thought Skeeter was a guy and seeing this video I […]

How Old?

vixely.com posted this sexy versus unsexy list online. At my age none of the sexy really matters to me. I’m 100% unsexy. Even after a few beers.