Category Archives: Thailand

Time to go Home

July 22, 2023 – 5:26 am

Chris Rock does a piece about why men get married. “You don’t want to end up the old guy at the club.” The old guy at the club. Pattaya was filled with them. Drinking, drugs, chatting with girls, going to sin here and there. I’m a witness. I like the night life. Always have. My […]

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HOT AS BLAZES by Peter Nolan Smith

July 21, 2023 – 9:46 pm

Ten years ago I flew from JFK to Haneda in Japan. The segment of my trip lasted 14 hours. The layover in Japan was two hours and the final hop to Bangkok took 6 hours followed by a 90-minute taxi ride to Sriracha. Sitting for twenty-six hours straight had flattened my ass, so my coccyx […]

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5 Things Thai bar girls Like about Farangs

July 21, 2023 – 10:33 am

WRITTEN 2009 Most surveys are conducted with scores, if not hundreds of people. Personally I go for the one person who is most representative of the subject group and several years ago when I was thinking about the five qualities a Thai bar girl required from her farang boyfriend, I immediately went to Gai, the […]

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Fat is Beautiful for Feminists

July 13, 2023 – 1:13 am

Several summers ago Jamie Parker drove up on his motorcycle from Pattaya to Sriracha. Mutual friends back in the States had been casting aspersions against the paternity of my son. Mam had heard the same from her family. She offered to submit Fenway to a DNA test. I wasn’t having any part of it. I […]

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The Sweet Smell of Durian

April 23, 2023 – 11:47 am

Many Asian foods are alien to westerners. Insects, horseshoe crab eggs, and sum tam or spicy mango salad easily come to mind as foreign to the tongues of farangs, however the most unacceptable Oriental delicacy remains the ever-malodorous durian. The stench of this squishy fruit is so disagreeable to non-aficionados that durian joined hand grenades […]

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