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In the 1980s I had occasion to visit East Germany. The frontline of Reagan’s Evil Empire. I drove my orange VW Beetle into East Berlin. No traffic other than rickety Trabants. I parked before the old Reichstag. No parking meters. I bought everyone in the Karl Marx Communal Bar a round. The bill came to 5DMs.
The Evil […]

You know you’ve been out of the USA too long when People Magazine publishes a list of the 50 Most beautiful women and you can only visualize one.
And Angeline Jolie is probably the oldest one in the Top 10.

1. Jessica Alba (actress)
2. Keeley Hazell (model)
3. Eva Longoria (actress - pictured)
4. Adriana Lima (supermodel)
5. Scarlett Johansson (actress)
6. […]

Detroit is understandably the world’s least sexy city. Murder, rust factories, and the Pistons. Nothing about Motor City says ’sexy’ other than the MC5 and Iggy. But Detroit has a lot of competition from Asia, as indicated by the Global Sexual Wellbeing Survey released at the World Congress on Sexual Health in Sydney.

Three cities in Asia topped […]

Last year Stephen Colbert lampooned GWII at the National Correspondents’ Dinner. The reporters stifled their laughter as they had suppressed any questions about the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. This year they got Rich Little and his impersonations of six presidents. The dumb have got dumber and accept this pabulum in fear of the White […]

Two games versus the Yankees and the Red Sox won both in April; the only bar in Pattaya to watch Red Sox games is the Janet Bar on Soi Excite. The owner hails from Newburyport and Mike played b-ball against Patrick Ewing.

“He dunked it from mid-court.”
Patrick Ewing was named to the top 50 NBA Players of all time, […]

I have never thought myself hairy.
None of my girlfriends have commented on my chest hairs.
In fact I think myself very non-hirsute, however while Nick and I were sitting on Sihanoukville’s main beach, we were accosted by two female beach masseuses offering a body hair removal service for $5.

It seemed like a good idea to me.
At […]

The BBC and bangkok Post report the Thai king pardon of a Swiss man who spraypainted five of the monarch’s portraits after a night of heavy drinking in Chiang Mai. One month out of a 10 year sentence. The story was lightly covered in the Thai papers to protect Oliver Jufer, a long time resident […]

Drinking with the two Rolands at the Angkor Arms was fun, but Nick and I were used to spending our nights with women. On my three previous solo trips to Sihanoukville I never ventured over to its infamous ‘Chicken Farm’ or street of ill repute near the harbor. Red light districts are never really fun, unless you’re […]

Overland from Pattaya to Sihanoukville was relatively painless. 9 hours on mini-vans with relatively adequate AC. $40. Nick and I booked into the Angkor Arms in the town center. Stinky went off to the backpacker haunt, Victory Hill.
“What you think are the chances of seeing him again?” Nick watched the smelly Dutchman disappear into the […]

Traffic throughout Thailand will predictably be murder for the next two days as New Year holidaymakers return from the country. Cars drive on all lanes of the roads. Angers flare and accidents reach near-warlike levels.
Even worse is that today more than 250,000 people will crowd into Mor Chit bus terminal.
That’s like holding Woodstock in a football stadium.
Or […]