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Singapore To Bangkok By Train

January 10, 2024 – 6:07 am

In 1990 I bought a second-class ticket from Singapore to Bangkok with stops in Penang and Suranthani. The old Pearl of the Orient was too clean for me. The Chinese president had ordered the city-state’s police to fine people for chewing gum or not washing their hands after using the WC. Effacing the walls with […]

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$500 Million Painting

May 6, 2021 – 2:42 am

Back in 2013 an art dealer friend of mine received an email from a 20-year-old Singapore artist asking $500 million US for his painting THE BRAIN. Here is the email: Half a Billion Dollars for a Painting is a World-Record. “If any artist has had any precedence in history, his art would no longer be […]

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Singapore the City of No

January 7, 2021 – 9:49 am

My great grand-aunt, Bert, circumnavigated the globe in the 1870s, when she was 12 years-old. Her father was the captain of sailing ship. I first met her in 1958. She was almost 100. Her house in Falmouth, Massachusetts was decorated with the curios of several continents; scrimshaw whale teeth, Zulu war shields, and ornate opium […]

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Bugis Street Selama-Lamanya

September 6, 2020 – 5:52 pm

The Bugis people were great voyagers from Sulawesi. They sailed small crafts from Padang Padang to many ports of the Far East ranging from Burma to Northern Australia. Many practiced piracy and as Thomas Forrest wrote in A Voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago, “The Buginese are a high-spirited people: they will not bear […]

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Frank Holliday – Singapore Sex/Art Show

September 12, 2015 – 3:51 pm

Isn’t all Art about Sex? Go see Frank. He and I tried to vandalize Fiorucci during the 1978 New York Blackout. He’s one of us.

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