Tag Archives: Pattaya

Loy Krathong the Day After

November 21, 2015 – 3:49 am

Loi Krathong has long been Thailand’s most beautiful festival. Not anymore in Pattaya. Few girls and women were dressed in the traditional costume. The police banned fireworks. Their marine patrols gathered the krathong offerings less than 20 meters from shore. No one was allowed to light a fire balloon, perhaps the most exotic image to […]

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EVOLUTION OF MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

September 7, 2015 – 11:08 am

Last month Jamie Parker and I were sitting on Pattaya Beach. We hadn’t seen each other in five months. “Do you miss living here?” Jamie had been trying to open another go-go bar. The owner of the Carousel off Walking Street was dead broke. The go-go bar sounded like a good investment, except neither of […]

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Pattaya Always Pattaya

July 11, 2015 – 7:24 pm

Back in the 1970s Miami Beach was a neglected beach resort populated by ancient retirees in moldy art-deco apartment buildings. Elderly snowbird males dine at Wolfie’s Deli sporting Sta-press shirts, plaid trousers, and gleaming white shoes. Attired in their polyester finery these septuagenarians trolled Miami Beach for blue-haired widows with a little extra income. The […]

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Anti-Mullah Fun

May 8, 2015 – 7:24 am

Ever since Ayatollah Kohmeni returned from exile to oust the Shah, the Mullahs in Iran have proscribed fun from the lives of the common folk. No music, no dancing, no drinking, no nothing have transformed the Shah’s secular state into a Land of No stricter than the New Jersey Shore or Tulsa, Oklahoma, however Iranians […]

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The Revenge of LBFMs

April 19, 2015 – 12:07 pm

Men come to Pattaya for one reason. It is not golf or the beach. They come for the girls. The Thai girls offer ‘companionship’. Farang men are obliged to exchange money for this friendship, even if it’s for as little as an hour. Almost everyone understand the dynamics of the exchange, however newcomers to the […]

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