Category Archives: Traditions

Songkran Party Time

April 13, 2015 – 3:20 am

My old mistress, Mrs. Carolina, used to say about blacks weekending in her home town, “They’re either drinking, fighting, or fixing their car.” It was a particularly racist thing to come out of the mouth of my lover, however the statement is very applicable to Thai men on this Songkran festival, despite the government’s media […]

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The Unmagic of the BBC

September 15, 2014 – 7:37 am

Varanasi on the Ganges River is one of the oldest cities in the world and considered by many to be the spiritual center of India. Archaeologists date its origin to over three thousand years ago and Siddhartha formulated the tenets of Buddhism upstream at Sarnath in a sermon entitled ‘Turning the Wheel of Law’ in […]

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Falling in Thailand

September 4, 2014 – 12:06 am

Falling from a balcony is a sad tradition for farangs in Thailand. The usual causes are suicide, drunkenness, or shoddy construction. Usually the latter is avoided by blaming the cause of death on the first two to avoid any legal repercussions for the building owners. A spate of falls this week took the lives of […]

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Bosox Undefeated

April 2, 2013 – 2:55 pm

Yesterday the Red Sox beat the Yankees 8-2. We are undefeated and as any Red Sox fan knows 1st place is always good. Especially at the expense of the NY Douchebags.

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The Last Executioner Of Thailand

March 29, 2013 – 1:49 pm

In many ways books are much better than DVDs. While used ones in Thailand cost about 160 baht as opposed to 100 baht per DVD, movies rarely last longer than 2 hours, especially if you hit the fast-forward button. The BLACK DAHLIA flashed before my eyes in less than 12 minutes. It sucked. Reading a […]

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