Monthly Archives: February 2008

Yellow Teeth – Part 1

SEMI-FICTION by Pascha Ray I’ve been arrested several times in my life. Age 12 for vandalizing an abandoned missile base. Age 21 for driving over a bed of flowers at a girl’s college. Age 25 in NY for running an after hour club. Age 31 in Paris for writing a love poem on the British [...]

Obama’s Assassinability Factor

Hillary Clinton lashed out at her opponent this weekend in hopes of kick-starting her faltering presidential campaign. Her character assassinations have not resonated with any segment of the Democratic electorate. People like Obama. They like him a lot, but black Americans are beginning to get the ‘fears’. The ‘fears’ of Obama’s assassinability.

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On my 21st Birthday I gambled my way across Nevada with my good friend Andy Kornfeld. I won in several smaller casinos and hit Reno up about $500, which was a small fortune in 1973. Andy struggled to convince me to quit while I was ahead, instead a mini-skirted blonde waitress offered free drinks. I [...]

Thai War on Drugs 2008

In 2001 I was living in a townhouse off Soi Bongkoch with my girlfiend Mem. See the Italian Plan. http://www.mangozeen.com/the-italian-plan.htm The PM Thaksin had initiated a War of Drugs. Death squads were hunting down dealers. Two members of this extra-legal branch of the police confronted my next door neighbor. He was a Thai jeweller. They [...]

Koh Tao to Ban Plastic bags

I visited Koh Tao off the coast of Southern Thailand in 1992. It was a quiet koh famous for its three beach island. The water was crystal clear, although the coral around the island was dead from fishing with poison and dynamite. I haven’t been back to Koh Tao since and I imagine that the tourist strain [...]