Tag Archives: thailand

Sting Like A Bee

Yesterday a tropical bee flew into our new house in Sriracha. Mam attacked the flying insect with a broom. My two year-old son Fenway screamed at the little creature. I rolled up the front section of yesterday’s Bangkok Post and tracked the bee’s flight. My first swat caught the buzzing bee on a zag and […]

End of Moneyless Utopia

My daughter was born seven years ago on New Year’s Day. My son will be two and a half. My two step-children are still under ten. I love them all and reacted immediately to their mothers’ request for money by tramping through the snowdrifts of Brooklyn to the nearest Duane Reade to send money. “Couldn’t […]

Wicked XXXmas

My wife Mem is very jealous. The Thai word ‘itsah’ pertains to envy of objects, however the true way to express jealousy is the word ‘huung’. Mem can’t believe that I spend months in New York without sex. “All you think about with me is sex.” “That’s different. I only want you.” Her love potion […]

The Long Reach of the Law

Back in the 80s Brion Gysin was living his last days in Paris. I was working at the Bains-Douches. I fought a lot at the door. Brion liked rough trade. We were associated through a mutual friend, Jeffery Kime. Dinners, drinks, parties. The collage artist/poet was a gentleman in pursuit of the frontiers of humor. […]

Happy Ending for VIPs

America is the land of no. No sex. No drinking. No drugs. Hypocrisy to the nth degree. The Catholic Church assaults young boys. Thousands of young girls runaway from abusive family. More kids die on Oycontin than heroin. Sexual freedom is a myth and these last weeks the right wing has latched onto several stories […]