Tag Archives: Pattaya

Guilty Single Male On the Planet

This photo of Al Franken mock-groping Leeann Tweeden on a C-4 to Iraq has convicted the Minnesota senator of sexual harassment. A New Yor Tims opinion writer demanded his resignation. Do I think his behavior was off the mark? 100% yes, but I have to reflect on my past. Nov 18, 2017 Khang Noi, small […]

Pattaya GO-GO Deadline 2/18

Diamonds sales were non-existent on Manhattan’s West 47th Street during the run-up to Valentine’s Day 2010. At least for the masses. The wealthy were splurging on big ticket items. 6-figure purchases of watches, diamonds, and jewelry. The good items were still rolling for Wall Street. None of these sales trickled down into my pocket and […]

1-1-2007 – PATTAYA

Having gone to sleep slightly after the stroke of 12am on New Year’s Eve, I woke with the dawn the next morning. Champoo, my little dog, was dying for a walk and I tiptoed through the sprawled bodies of my wife’s guests. They had had too much food and drink unlike me. I was nearly stone-sober. My […]

No Music Day 11/21 Pattaya

From 2007 Last week on during my holiday stay in Thailand Jamie Parker said that he had never seen a group of people more allergic to silence than the Thais. The TV never gets a rest. Rice farmers wake to loudspeakers blaring crop prices. Dogs howl without an owner’s restraining smack and karaoke bars punish neighbors with painful renditions of […]

New Year’s Eve 2007 Pattaya

On the afternoon of December 31, 2007 heavy lorries, pick-up trucks and 125cc motorcycles with sidecars exited from the distributor at the end of my soi with thousands of beers every minute. Thousands of Thai and farang tourists were flocking into the city for the year’s final drunk in the beach resort’s countless bars, go-gos, […]