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“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.”

I love that line from the Human League’s DON’T YOU WANT ME BABY, only in Pattaya men tend to fall in love with go go girls dancing around a firepole. I fall in love with them too although only from a distance. Not that I’m smart […]

Back in 1984 my friend bought a fiendishly fast KZ 1100 cc bike in Paris. We were doing smack.

While sitting at an African transvestite after-hour bar in Les Halles, le Savanne, he asked, “How you like to take it for a ride?”My survival instinct had been rendered to zero and I took his keys. The […]

Back in the 70s I hung out with almost everyone. fools, whores, dealers, politicians, intellectuals, nuns, et al. Most of them now are retired as am I, but the other day I read about Nicky Barnes in the Herald Tribune.

Blast from the past.
I never met the Harlem gangster, but I had a connection through a […]

The bars of Pattaya are shut tonight and tomorrow and the next day. Normally you can buy a beer from your local store. Not today.

Thais are going cold-turkey for Macha Bucha Day, which celebrates the day 1250 Arhantas’ or Enlightened One came to hear Tujah or Buddha preach the principles of the Buddhism, called “The Ovadhapatimokha.
In […]

Saturday Night Live held a comedic death watch for Generalissimo Franco during its first season in 1975. After Spanish dictator’s death the joke lingered and Chevy Chase would report with solemnity. ”This breaking news just in. Generalísimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”

Well, Anna Nicole Smith is still dead too.
In accordance with her wishes the starlet had finally been buried […]

When I first came to Thailand twenty years ago, men never wore shorts and women dressed conservatively while outside the house. Thais are still very prudish about personal nudity. They laugh at the Russian men in their tiny g-strings, while the men ogle the farang tourist sunbathers bare-breasting their bodies on the beach. There were go-go […]

If Heaven Above A Go Go was operating in LA, the vice squad of the square city would close the exotic art establishment within an hour, otherwise traffic jams on the nearest freeway would extend for miles. Dancing girls, techno music, lesbian sex shows, and lounge couches for groping in a setting from CLOCKWORK ORANGE’s […]