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I was in NYC on 9/11 on my roof about a mile from the targets of the terrorists. My neighbors and I witnessed the World Trade Center collapse in flames, transfixed by the horror, yet I was not scared by the non-FX spectacle. Not in the traditional sense, however my email addresses keeps getting bombarded by sick sex […]

“What is Jerusalem worth?” the knight at the end of KINGDOM OF GOD asks Saladin. 
“Nothing.” Saladin answered and walked away, then turns and says, “Everything.”
Faith drives the worth of Jerusalem for the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Bunch of wankers all and now James Cameron, director of THE TERMINATOR series had declared his discovery of Jesus’ […]

Saturday night out on the town and it’s 2:30am.
Way past a man my age’s bedtime. however the gentle persuasion of my good friend Sam Royalle coaxed the devil in me to stay out another hour. Most punters head to Marine Disco or the JP Bar, however our choice for a nightcap is the Casino Bar […]

No limos or red carets for Oscar parties on Soi 6, despite some of the best acting performance coming from the upper rooms above that salubrious strip. The short time bars had closed at 2am and the girls sought their pillows, lovers, or a bottle of cheap Thai whiskey to help bring in the dawn. […]

SHORT STORY BY PETER NOLAN SMITH
I no longer live in New York, yet any mention of the city snags my ear like a jilted lover hearing the mention of an old grilfriend. Not everything is good. This week the media covered a story about rats infesting a Greenwich Village KFC. The stock for Yum Corp, […]

Early Saturday morning a security guard along Jomtien Beach in Pattaya supposedly heard four shots. A Thai man drove off on a motorcycle. A convenience store’s CCTV camera caught the fleeing man on film. 
The guard checked the area to discover two Russian women. they ahd been shot in the head. Later their hotel claimed that the women enjoyed […]

My brother-in-law sent this message about a New Retail Store. My wife loves shopping. For women shopping is a sport on the same level as football only they don’t sit on a sofa watching TV. They are on the field and play to win.

It’s my beer money that loses.
Wah.
Interesting new store format called the “Husband […]

Woke this morning in Pattaya to the crackle of fireworks, as the local Chinese celebrated the upcoming Year of the Pig or Pi Mai Moo. I asked my wife if she wanted to scare away the demons with fireworks and she said, “Only Chinese do.”

“I see Thais do it too.”
“Not real Thai.”
With that prejudice in mine I […]

New Englanders are relatively starved of archaeological ruins other than frost-heaved stone walls from vanished farms snaking through the woods or the smooth walls of the Quincy Quarries. Not one of the Seven Wonders of the World was on our side of the Atlantic. None from Africa or the Far East graced list either thanks to the Eurocentricity […]

BABEL has received acclaim from Cannes and the Golden Globes. I purchased the DVD while waiting for lasagna at Fat Tony’s on the Jomtien Hill Road. I had pretty much seen everything else and the director’s earlier films AMORES PERROS and 21 GRAMS offered a different plotline than most Hollywood crap, so I returned home in […]