Category Archives: Movies / TV

ANAMORPH 2007 movie

My flight from Bangkok to Taipei to Anchorage to JFK lasted through a very long Sunday. Total time – 37 hours and according my body have been suffering a severe case of narcolepsy. Two evenings ago Willem Dafoe extended an invitation to a screening of ANAMORPH by HS Miller. “I’m playing a cop.” “You get […]

XXX Conspiracy in Pattaya

While pornography is illegal in Thailand, XXX movies or nang-po are widely distributed for general consumption. Police crackdowns on this trade have little effect on deflating the sales of DVDs depicting the ways of the flesh. The demand for skin flicks featuring Thai females has created an underground film industry in Pattaya and this week […]

Eastern Promises

On Boxing Day 2006 a pick-up truck narrowly missed my daughter. I confronted the driver at the end of the soi. The tattooed tapestry got out of his truck wearing sneakers or trainers. He was bigger than I thought and I was wearing the 2nd worst footwear for a fight. Flip-flops. The worst are cowboy boots which […]

They Go in Threes #2

I worked at St. John of the Heavens Hospital the summer of 1973. Marilynn was working there. She went to Boston College. So did I. She was a candy striper. Orderlies earn five cents an hour than janitors. I call myself a ‘porter’. My first day I learned St. John’s was a waiting room for […]

BIG TV

Every January the electronic and computer companies promote their newest products at the Las Vegas convention center, which strangely coincides with the adult entertainment industry’s annual Awards Banquet in America’s City of Sin. XXX and IT go hand in hand since 95% of internet traffic is porno-bound judging from the SPAM dumped on the website and […]