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Pattaya City Hall has announced a Vaseline Full Sun Double Fun Fair for this coming April 29. Vaseline is spending over $2 million US dollars to promote its sun block products, but questions have been raised by the local gay and fetish communities about why Vaseline wasn’t focusing on the use of its main lubricant as […]

The BBC reported that indigenous Bolivian coca planters have started a legal process to prevent Coca-Cola from using ‘Coca’ as a logo name, citing coca is as native to the Andean nation as hot dogs are to the USA.

The multinational company has retorted that their logo is protected by Bolivian law, however the Coca Committee of the […]

Thailand’s interim government approved a bill aimed at curbing the alcohol consumption through a ban of booze ads, zoning for drinking, and the raising of the drinking age to 20.

Their most recent attempt to push through this legislation was defeated by the major ad agencies along with their whiskey company subscribers, however this time they have a petition […]

This week a Swiss man pleaded guilty to defacing several portraits of Thailand’s revered sovereign. Worst the desecration occurred on the king’s 79th birthday. The perpetrator’s defense that he was drunk won no sympathy from the judge, who could sentence the foreigner to 75 years in the Chiang Mai prison. The trial was held ex camera to prevent any retaliation […]

Over the weekend several web blogs reported youtubes.com had been blocked access in Thailand. I never had any problems, then again I don’t check the site often since Viacom exiled Jon Stewart from the viewing public.

Reasons for ban in Thailand range from insulting Buddha or criticizing the government or showing sex pictures of any combination […]

It’s been over five years since 9/11. After one fierce firefight in Afghanistan, the CIA and Pentagon have yet to come close to capturing the supposed mastermind of the World Trade Center disaster. So where is he?

Pakistan seems to be the choice of most intelligence groups, who had their dragnets out in force in anticipation of […]

After a long absence mahouts are once more patrolling the beaches and streets of Pattaya with their pachyderms. 20 baht buys a plastic bag of sugar cane to feed the gentle giants and who’s to tell a hungry elephant ‘no’. The police vow to exile any errant elephants back to their parks, however it’s low […]

Last weekend’s arrest of the Jomtien Beach murderer was a reason for celebration for the local police force, however the new national Police Chief’s visit to Pattaya has left many of the city’s gendarmerie psychologically scarred due to his criticism of their lackluster performance in create an atmosphere of order.

Threatened by snap transfers and blocked […]

Several years ago I decided to move out of New York, not wanting to become a septuagenarian in grimy clothing subsisting on cat food. My destination options were Paris, Palm Beach or Pattaya. 
I had already lived in Paris during the 80s.
At 50 I was still too young into gigoloship at the Breakers in Palm Beach, so it was […]

I write commerical editorials for a small publication in Pattaya under an assumed name to avoid anyone mistaking me for a pseudo-intellectual. The most important perk to this gig is that I get free meals, hotel rooms, and whatever else the establishment offers.
Most recently I was assigned to writing about the Toscana Trattoria on Beach Road.
The lush garden […]