Category Archives: youth

LOVE BUZZ BY Shocking Blue

March 2, 2011 – 10:36 pm

MTV and VH1 dismissed many 60s bands as one-hit wonders without ever really homaging these under-supported groups for having accomplished the nearly impossible task of breaking through the playlist of the radio stations to reach the Top 10 and few DJs would have given the Dutch band Shocking Blue a chance to reach # 1 […]

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TV Limbo

February 15, 2011 – 7:46 am

And suddenly it was 4am. No one of the modern age remembers waking to this signal and even fewer can recall its black/white ancestor and only a handful the sight of electric snow blanketing the screen of their Zenith Television. Only 4 channels and all of them were good.

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The Happiness of a Vespa

January 24, 2011 – 9:24 pm

“Riding a Vespa is like having sex with a transvestite. It’s a lot of fun until one of your friends see you doing it.” Of course it’s always fun if you have a naked girl riding behind you. That wasn’t the case in the summer of 1966, when I rode on the back of a […]

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Sting Like A Bee

January 20, 2011 – 12:10 am

Yesterday a tropical bee flew into our new house in Sriracha. Mam attacked the flying insect with a broom. My two year-old son Fenway screamed at the little creature. I rolled up the front section of yesterday’s Bangkok Post and tracked the bee’s flight. My first swat caught the buzzing bee on a zag and […]

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The Freedom of Apostasy

December 21, 2010 – 7:44 am

My grades at Our Lady of the Foothills were better than good, but nothing extraordinary, so everyone in my town was shocked by my winning a scholarship to Xaverian Brothers High School. My parents were so proud. Their son had answered their prayers. I lost the scholarship two years later for failing religion. My mother […]

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