Category Archives: Food

John Hopkins Report On Big C

February 29, 2012 – 3:44 pm

Death Valley March 1996 From Michael Holman, not a doctor but a friend. AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (‘TRY’, BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY . Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins: 1. Every person […]

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Paffgen Brewery

December 20, 2011 – 3:50 am

Last evening I dined at Paffgen Brauerei, the last family brewery in Cologne. The beer served at this establishment is called “Kölsch” once the most popular beverage in the city. Once a dark beer, the draught’s color was changed to resemble a pilsner. It is still served from the keg at Paffgen and I ordered […]

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BAD INFLUENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2011 – 6:50 am

Last winter Enos Washing called me at the diamond exchange. “I heard from your cousin that you had come back from Thailand.” Enos had visited Ty Spaulding in Pattaya and the then-broker had thought the Last Babylon ‘dirty. He wasn’t wrong. “I’m back almost four years.” I hoped Ty had said nothing about the circumstances […]

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Fried Rat A La Ban Nok

November 4, 2011 – 5:02 am

Last January I returned to Thailand to celebrate my daughter’s birthday. Ban-nok was cold that time of year and one night my ex-wife’s brother-in-law, his friends, and I drank rice whiskey around a blazing bonfire. Halfway through the second bottle of lao-khao a young man entered the circle of light. A long small-bore rifle rested […]

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Deep-Throating Corndogs

September 7, 2011 – 10:31 am

“ “There are few things sexier than a MILF choking down a corndog.” James Steele

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