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New York was my hometown for over 25 years. I’ve been away over 3 years. Everyone has been asking me if I thought it had changed.
“The World Trade Towers still aren’t there.”
That isn’t the answer they want, so I concentrated while sitting on a park bench.

Women came walking by. Not one of them met my […]

Drinking beer is supposedly good for you or so Guinness tells me. I’ve invested probably about $100,000 in beer drinking, which has led to a more than slight expansion of my personal property around the waist, however in Pattaya there are those partakers whose investment in beer has thrived beyond all expectations.
Some boast a girth of […]

Yesterday the World Cup kicked off and not a single crime was committed in the nation of smiles. Police sat at checkpoints throughout Pattaya without being able to collect a single baht from motorists violating the traffic laws. Investigators predict that over 1.5 million students will gamble lunch money on the games. Noodle shop owners […]

It’s been two years since I’ve been back in New York and everyone asks if I see anything different.
First it’s colder than I remember, second I have to wear shoes and soxes too, third beers cost about 240 baht at a bar, and lastly young girls don’t smile at me. In fact they scowl if […]

Sept. 28 has been announced as the opening date for Bangkok’s new airport. There has been mention of which year, but everyone suspects the transport ministers are pushing for this year. The countdown begins today.
100 days to go.
Odds are 40-1 they miss the date, since over one million pieces of equipment have to be moved […]

It’s been almost two months since the last election decided that no one should govern Thailand. Neither the TRT, the Democrats, nor the various other factions politically gained from this closure of the Senate. Strangely the bureaucracy still functions. Mail gets delivered, bars are closed at the proper hours, and occasionally a minister announces a […]

I’ve been in the USA almost ten days. New York and Boston. Neither had been totally conquered by the obese barbarians, although my brother, who has a million dollar beer belly said, “Disneyworld. No adult there is under 300.”
Maria from Korea added, “I was in St Louis and everyone at the riverboat casinos was over […]

A recent survey revealed that less than 1% of men at Yankee Stadium washed their hands after using the urinal. Even scarier was that less than 2% did so after squatting on the porcelain throne. Thankfully more than 20% did so after puking cheap hot dogs and worthless Bud beer.
I decided to conduct a similar survey […]

Pattaya must be the per capita capitol of farangs with tattoos. Westerners parade shirtless to exhibit the beauty of their body art, despite the collateral damage to the colored flesh from the tropical sun. Most tattoos are eagles, dragons, and declarations of never-ending love to go-go girls tattoo with similar vows of fidelity to previous […]