MangoZeen

My wife spends a lot of time up country with her family. Her excuses vary from month to month. I don’t lift them to the light, because the truth is an onion with many layers. Once you peel them all, you have nothing. Plus I’d live there too if i had the money.

Neither do I […]

My mother wanted a daughter for her second child and bought tons of girl’s clothing for my birth. Sadly I turned out with the wrong plumbing, however this gender disappointment didn’t shortcircuit my mother’s proudly dressing her new-born boy as a girl.

People raised in the Great Depression understood the value of money and buying new baby […]

It’s desperation season again.
Foreigners come to Pattaya with the goal of living out the rest of their life on the Eastern Seaboard. Some arrive with millions and others start businesses to finance the lifestyles of the ne’er-do-well and infamous. Most last about a year and a half before realizing their nest eggs and dream schemes […]

Strange to think that Thailand has a winter.
Usually coldest spot in thailand is a movie theater. A  Chilly 21C. Brrrr.
Last night riding home on my motorcycle, I suppressed a shiver. Fah nao or the cold season had arrived like clockwork.
Not that we should expect snow.
The mountains in the North drop to 3C above Zero at worst […]

On April 1 1995 the porno parlors of Times Square closed for good thanks to the edict of mayor Guiliani, who at the time was having an extramartial affair. The infamous Combat Zone in Boston has been reduced to three XXX rated book stores and a bunch of drunks. After centuries of instructing Paris men in […]