Tag Archives: Pattaya

LOVE YOU LONG TIME – CHAPTER 5 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 11, 2020 – 8:16 am

The Songkran festival turned uglier faster than the previous year. Thai street vendors hawked squirt guns of every capacity to hooligans mixing itching powder into gutter water. Industrial drinking fueled the unholy holiday madness. Playful water fights escalated from harmless sanuk or fun into vicious shootings redressing old grudges. Pickups jerry-rigged with plastic reservoirs recklessly […]

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LOVE YOU LONG TIME – CHAPTER 6 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 11, 2020 – 7:59 am

Two thousand years ago Cato wrote that the deadliest trap for a man is the one that a woman weaves with her tears. Every bones in my body said throw out Ae. Regrettably I was bound by a love potion much stronger than love and I was beyond saving myself from the sinking sands swirling […]

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LOVE YOU LONG TIME – CHAPTER 7 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 11, 2020 – 6:01 am

Despite the success of Italian Plan I obsessed on Ae all the time. I drank beer with her father and brother. They said she was crazy. They also had new clothes and watches. The Italian had bought their loyalty with more than beer. I had to get out of town before I did something monumentally […]

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Ghost Road To Sri Racha

April 11, 2020 – 12:26 am

Back in the good old days coal miners carried canaries in a cage down into the mines, since lethal gases killed the canaries before humans. The allusion ‘canaries in a cage’ has been assigned to political, natural, and economic threats to our existence. Five nights ago I arrived at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport a little past […]

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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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