Category Archives: women

Writing Tip 101A – Women Writer’s Know Their Shit

March 30, 2020 – 8:49 am

The key to writing is putting the seat of your trousers to the seat of the chair – Mary Heaton Vorse, American journalist, labor activist, and novelist I wrongly attributed this quote to another author. A man. Graham Greene to be exact. I was wrong. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the […]

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Females Outliving Males

March 25, 2020 – 2:56 pm

Dr Jean-Francois Lemaître, from the University of Lyon, France has released a study of the lifespan in wild mammals showing that females live substantially longer than males. As much as 18.6% longer than males from the same species and 8% in humans and the difference is determined by climatic conditions as well as the male […]

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THE SLEEP OF THE DEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2020 – 1:20 am

Two weeks after my arrest by the Thai Cyper-Crime Unit in 2008 I was drinking at Donovan’s Sports Bar on Pattya’s Sai 3. Most of the clientele was watching a golf match, while I concentrated on drinking a vodka-tonic. Golf meant nothing to me. After Tiger Woods birdied a hole, the TV went to commercial […]

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Me Too # Not Far Enough

October 27, 2019 – 11:08 am

In 1971 Bernardo Bertolucci directed Marlo Brando and Maria Schneider in LAST TANGO IN PARIS. The film featured a controversial rape scene between the two actors. Bertolucci and Brando coerced the nineteen year-old actress into performing the scene. Wikipedia reports that she later said, “They only told me about it before we had to film […]

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Thai Bar Rules

August 3, 2018 – 5:59 am

When I first arrived in Pattaya 1991 go-go bars listed a set of rules on the wall. No photos, no fighting, no guns, no hand grenades, no durians. A few bars even had dress codes. Shirts and shoes were required by male patrons. No bare feet were allowed on the premises other than on stage. […]

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