Archive for October, 2006

Ramadan Rules on deadly sin

Evil lurked everywhere in 1965 and our 7th Grade Catholic school teacher, Sister Mary Josef, warned her male students in a specail assembly that not only masturbation would condemn boys to hell, but repeated self-abuse led to hair sprouting from our palms and worst case scenario, blindness.

“Idle hands are the tools of the devil. Even the slightest touch can […]

John Mark Carr Innocent

“I am not innocent.” The child porno fugitive declared, as a scrum of Bangkok police escorted John Mark Carr through a gauntlet of rabid reporters. He was declared guilty, guilty guilty by many US talking heads and his arrest sparked a myth that the most recent changes in the Visa on Arrival laws resulted from the lost of […]

Ong Bak - Thai Movie

ONG BAK marked the debut of Tony Yaa, the explosive martial talent, to both Thai and intenational audience. The story of a young man searching for a stolen Buddha head in Bangkok is aided by the skillful direction by Prachya Pinchaew for the director truthfully portrays country life, while going a little over the top with […]

Pattaya Bar Etiquette Lesson

Somehow when men from the West come to Pattaya they lose whatever manners their parents had beaten into them as children. Bad behavior becomes almost a prerequisite for a good time. drunkeness, rowdyism, and macho studity are usually forgiven by our Thai hosts, but the other night a foreign patron at Lucifer’s Discotheque overstepped the lines.

The Swede […]

Miss Czech wins Miss World 2006

Miss Czech Republic took the crown in the Miss World pageant yesterday in Poland. The event was held in the Palace of Culture, a masterpiece of stalinist architecture, which was tarted up for the event. Old Joe Stalin must be rolling in his grave and feminists stuck to tradition calling the beauty contest a cattle […]

Peace in Bagdhad

Peace was achieved in Bagdhad this weekend after US liberation forces advised the Iraqi government call for a complete curfew during daylight hours. No cars. No pedestrian. Everyone had to stay at home as a precaution against the feared bombing of the International Zone. 
GW Bush suggested the people of Bagdhad stay the course and order in […]