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“Wise men fish here.”

This non sequitor graced a sign above Gotham Books of West 47th Street.
New York’s Diamond Alley.
I slaved on that street 13 years slinging ice to fiancées, mistresses, and drug dealers. Izzy SheyGutz. In goyim we trust. 5 days a week. Pastrami sandwiches and italian suits. 7 days during the Xmas holidays after […]

Alan Pratt tells a story about making love to a Thai woman in the waters off Jomtien Beach. The year was 1987. “The moon was rising and the water was cyrstal clear. Fish flitted across the surface, as I held this girl in my arms, thinking it doesn’t get better than this.”

20 years is a […]

Some people can’t help being do-gooders.
Pattaya has its own share with its local police volunteers. These Dudley Dorights act as informers for the fight against crimes such as naked girls, foreign prostitutes, visa overstays, and after-hours drinking. Some are Thais and a few are farangs. The most noted of their police works for the Pattaya […]

“Mssr. Rick, why did you come to Casablanca?” The French Vichy colonel asked Humphery Bogart’s character in the film CASABLANCA.
“For the waters,” Rick responds with smoke-narrowed eys.
“But there are no waters here.”
“I was misinformed.” Bogart sells the line with ease.
And no one comes to Pattaya for the waters and if the police have their way […]

The Bangkok Post reported several villages in the Chao Phyra Delta have lost considerable real estate to the rising water of Gulf of Siam. Bangkok like New Orleans is actually under sea level. The predictions of Global Warming alarmists condemn the City of Angels to a watery grave. It will not be the only Atlantis. New […]

Yesterday Rosie O’Donnell announced to the public that they won’t be seeing her on THE VIEW anymore. This ‘news’ came after a heated hissy fit with her co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Rosie’s earned a first place slot from CNN and Fox News on a day where GW Bush announced that 2008 will see troop reductions in […]

Dennis Kucinech is the only American politician brave enough to demand the impeachment of President Bush. For this act of courage the Ohio congressman is vilified by Fox News and GOP stalwarts. His fellow Democrats distanced themselves like he had farted a month’s worth of beans. To be honest the chances of this call gaining […]

Nick and I had scheduled our Cambodia trip to avoid Songkran in Thailand. My wife thought this voyage was simply a sex tour, but we passed through Koh Kong and Sihanoukville without a passing glance at the local talent, mostly because S-ville’s Chicken Farm has been dramatically reduced by the port expansion and the bars […]

I wrote about the Seven Wonders of the World in February 2007
http://www.mangozeen.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1048
My list consisted of the Potala in Lhasa, the funereal Ghats of Varanasi, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Sanctuary of Truth in Pattaya, the Chartes Cathedral, the moon-lit combs atop Tikal’s pyramids in Guatemala, and Sophie’s Bar in Phnom Penh.
Over than 45 million people have voted […]

Two humpback whales befuddled by the backwash of mobile phones in San Francisco Bay swam 70 miles up the Sacramento River. Oceanologists have failed to seduce the errant sea mammals to the open sea with love sirens from other whales. They remain stranded upriver.

Japanese researchers have offered to lend California marine biologists a sonar signature […]