Category Archives: money

Burning Money For Quiet

March 26, 2012 – 1:20 pm

Last January Jamie Parker and I were drinking at a bar on Soi Bukhao in Pattaya. Several sound systems competed for our attention and Jamie said, “I’ve never see a people more allergic to silence than the Thais.” “The TV in my house is always on.” Thais love their soaps. “What about the loudspeakers in […]

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Billion Euro House

March 26, 2012 – 12:47 pm

In fall of 1997 I rented a converted schoolhouse in Ballyconeelly from Lord Guinness of the Guinness Beer fortune. The monthly rent for the autumn was 600 Irish pounds or almost $1000. I was splitting the cost with my friend Ty Spaulding, but upon arriving at the desolate dwelling in the coastal bogs I discovered […]

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Munch’s SCREAM For Sale

February 21, 2012 – 1:30 pm

Sothebys will auction off a version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream on sale in New York to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Experts say the iconic pastel could reap over $80 million. The painting will be exhibited in London and New York before its sale. Of course if you want The Sctream […]

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Tabula Rasa Abracadabra

February 9, 2012 – 7:44 pm

The BBC reported today that Greece will have to accept new conditions for their bailout of 130 Billion Euros and one of which will be austere reductions to the public budget as well as salary reductions in the private sector. The Greek government has been backed into a corner by a debt greater than its […]

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The 6th Commandment in Pattaya

August 5, 2011 – 11:40 pm

The religious right in America have sought to increase the influence of God on the government by trying to place the 10 Commandments in various courthouses and legislature. While I am not a follower of the bearded Jehovah in the flowing muumuu, I have nothing against erection of the twin tablets of NO this and […]

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