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Montauk Train # 19

October 27, 2024 – 7:22 pm

Amagansett Empty golf course FourteenPile Of Stones minutes From Montauk___ I have never played golf Pitch and Putt Once in Queen’s Park London Back in the last century With friends Nina, Ingi and others The Persian, Maid Marion, Frank, maybe Fingers Maybe others___ A beautiful September afternoon Queen’s Park Who won No one cared No […]

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YIM YET MUNG by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2022 – 6:08 pm

Over twenty golf courses are located within an hour drive from Pattaya, Thailand’s infamous beach resort. Whacking a little ball around the world-class fairways gave many long-distance travelers something to do during the day, while waiting for the night to fall on the Last Babylon. Jamie Parker preferred sleep, however his girlfriend Ort had been […]

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Noblesse Ne’er-Do-Wells

February 20, 2021 – 6:10 am

Ten years ago Thaksin’s red shirts of targeted Bangkok’s luxury shopping malls of their political rivals, the elite yellow shirts. The riotous schism between the two classes was a mystery to most foreigners who regarded their adopted country as the land of Smiles, but a restrictive way of life to the majority of Thais. I […]

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We Are So Fucked

December 26, 2020 – 10:55 pm

In the first days of March 2020 I stood on Kilimanjaro with the Kili Iniitative Climb group. Once again I did not summit. At dawn I descended from the 16000 feet camp across the Saddle to the Horombo camp, where I met my friend Pendaeli. The Tanzanian park ranger said, “You can get the Internet […]

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Par 4 at the Killing Fields Country Club

February 20, 2018 – 2:04 am

Eleven years ago in a move destined to have the late Cambodian despot Pol Pot spinning in his grave _ if he had one _ the former Khmer Rouge cadres in their stronghold of Pailin embraced a plan to cash in on the country’s tourism boom and build a golf course. Not that they know […]

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