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THE PIGPEN A GO GO by Peter Nolan Smith

September 11, 2024 – 1:34 pm

Life is the sum of a person’s experiences. Work and family dominate the sculpting of a soul. Days are defined by routine and years by the seasons and weather. En masse we are the same, but different thanks to our participation in special events liberating our souls from the shackles of perpetual monotony. Woodstock lasted […]

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Old Men Love to Rock Pattaya

April 17, 2024 – 8:48 pm

Five years ago I had been on Pattaya’s notorious Soi 6 in the Woo Woo Bar listening to Jefferson’s Airplane’s SOMEBODY TO LOVE. The trio of sub-20 Thai girls had invited me to visit an upstairs short-time room. “You sexy man. How old you. 40?” Even through beer goggles my mirror doesn’t lie more than […]

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SKATING ON THIN ICE by peter nolan smith 2011

February 22, 2024 – 3:46 pm

Thailand’s monsoons arrived at the end of the Pattaya’s low season in April 2022, but none had ever been lower than this Covid season. Hotels offered special rates and the few working girls at the even fewer bars and go-gos called everyone ‘sexy’, but the global travel chaos due to the deadly pandemic has forced […]

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Lobstah on Patpong – 1990s

February 1, 2024 – 11:10 am

Back in the 1990s I was in Bangkok s Patpong gogo zone. I was standing at the bar and heard a younger man order a beer. “Are you from Maine?” “Lewiston.” “Falmouth Foresides. We must be the largest gathering of Maine people in Asia.” We clinked beers and he shook his head, saying, “Those two […]

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TO LIVE AND DIE IN PATTAYA by Peter Nolan Smith

September 14, 2022 – 1:32 am

Pattaya isn’t what it used to be in the 90s or 80s. The coconut plantations have been replaced by luxury villas. Interpol and the Thai Police hunt down fugitives and the Russians have taken over the hills, so three summers ago I moved north to Sri Racha with my son Fenway and his mom. The […]

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