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I love SUNSET BOULEVARD.

The Director Billy Wilder paints a paean to fading glory in this 1950 film. Young writer and ancient femme fatale joined in a tragic menage a trois with fame for the fantastic ending choreographed by John F. Seitz’s cinematography. Gloria Swanson charging the camera. “All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my […]

The passage of the new Thai referendum whetted people’s appetite for an election to get a democratically-selected government in place. The military announced that Dec. 23 was an auspicious day for such an event. The polling date will be December 23. That’s 4 months, but not fast enough for the US embassy which said that the election […]

After 9/11 a newspaper conducted a survey to see how many Americans could locate New York on a map. Readers were flabbergasted by the high percentage and this mental gap on geography was brought home to the TV audience during the Miss Teen USA pageant when the contestant from South Carolina was asked by the […]

The Nation published the government’s intention to raise the taxes on alcohol and cigarettes obstentively to reduce treament costs for those afflicted by the deadly killers. I googled ‘free cigarette treatment Thailand’ without finding a single reference on the first five pages pertaining to these search words. Officials hoping that the excise tax will discourage consumption […]

Men have many rules for manly behavior in a bathroom.
Straight men do not make eye contact with strangers. Straight men don’t converse with strangers while you’re peeing. Straight men do not look at penises while you are peeing.

Most men obey these rules, however a network of ‘tearooms’ ie gay toilets stretch across the world and […]

Last night the local police visited Pattaya’s #1 Go-Go to enforce a 60 Day shutdown thanks to a third black eye for onstage impropriety. Heaven Above will be dark for the following two months. No more white on white couches or crazed go-go nudity.

   
The owners are taking a much needed rest, while the bunny dancers […]

I’ve never received one of these letters and was so excited that I might be $8.3 million richer soon that I had to share my roller coaster ride to fame and fortune with you.

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Dear Sir.
I am Madam Laarni Enriqez, a native of Philippine nationality, and a
divorcee. I would like to have a long lasting and […]

A German friend here used to enter a bank with a shotgun, blow a hole in the ceiling, and 60 seconds later drive away on a stolen motorcycle 30,000 Deutschmarks richer.

Most robberies are acts of desperate men or women as opposed to bank robbers. Somehow they get it in their head that armed theft has to […]

Bangkok Police are world-renowned for their steadfast vigilance against crime, however every police department has their rotten mangos. Most are investigated by Internal Affairs and exiled from the force. Rather than dispose of highly-trained officers, the Crime Suppression Division had decided to humiliate errant tam-ruat or cops by having them wearing pink ‘Hello Kitty’ armbands as a clear indication […]

FROM THE BANGKOK POST
Sampran, a five-year-old bull elephant from Khao Ang Rua Nai Wildlife Sanctuary, found himself with nowhere to go. He was chased away from his herd last year. However, he discovered the buffer zone of the wildlife sanctuary was paradise - he could feed on the crops grown by villagers there.
 
But last month, […]