Category Archives: Nightlife

Pattaya Bar Etiquette Lesson

Somehow when men from the West come to Pattaya they lose whatever manners their parents had beaten into them as children. Bad behavior becomes almost a pre-requisite for a good time. Drunkeness, rowdyism, and macho studity are usually forgiven by our Thai hosts, but the other night a foreign patron at Lucifer’s Discotheque overstepped the […]

Pattaya Police Bust Tony’s DJ

Someone once wrote that you know you’ve been in Thailand too long when everythng you own is a fake. Fake Adidas, fake watches, fake DVDs, and fake CDs. I admit my guilt as well since my wallet can’t justify paying 400 baht for a CD that costs 100 baht as a counterfeit. Neither could Tony’s […]

Thai Go Go dancing safety lessons

My cousin Sharon Mitchell performed exotic dances around the world. Her skill with a firepole was legendary and a smile grace her face through every routine before a devoted audience smitten with a drool factor of 10. Sharon was their goddess, but even goddesses feel pain. No one saw her grimace upon getting backstage or […]

Fabo’s Whereabouts

I hadn’t seen Fabo in several weeks. Last time was with his mia noi Gai at the Buffalo Bar. The nextd day Bruno said Fabo was in trouble. He didn’t say what. It could have been Poo, his big wife, Gai, the good German gangster, drinking too many Heinekens. The result was the same. He was MIA […]

Where are you, Fabo?

I last saw Fabo at the Buffalo Bar. He was with Gai, his mia noi. “My wife she knows nothing.” “I wouldn’t be too sure of that.” Thai wives have ‘naak-suab’ or spies everywhere and Thai women love to ‘waa raai’ or gossip about other women’s philandering husbands, especially if the woman is not present. […]