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It was a quiet night in Donovan’s Sports Bar on 3rd Road. The owner was sitting alone. I decided to join Steve for an Easter cheeseburger. We discussed my upcoming trip to the USA and he said, “It’s been three and half years since I was last in New York.”

“Over two for me.” And I […]

Last month Thaksin Shinawatra returned to face corruption charges in Thailand after spending over a year and a half in luxury exile. The former prime minister has been keeping a very low profile despite his faithful followers clamoring for his ascend to power. At present he is under court orders to leave the country and […]

Hells Angels celebrated their 60th anniversery this Easter weekend. Legend places their founding chapter in Fontana, California, although other chapters claim later dates for the birth of the world’s most infamous motorcycle gang.

Sonny Barger swears his Oakland chapter was first, while Rocky Graves from Berdoo is a fervent believer in the San Francisco clubhouse as […]

Pattaya is a city not well-known for monogamy. Promises of fidelity last until you leave the room, because this city has temptations by the thousands and those temptations rarely say no. 

Bar girls, rent boys, ka-toeys, booze, and drugs add up to damnation according to Reverend Joe Stannis of the Holy Revival Church located down the street […]

My cousin Sharon Mitchell performed exotic dances around the world. Her skill with a firepole was legendary and a smile grace her face through every routine before a devoted audience smitten with a drool factor of 10. Sharon was their goddess, but even goddesses feel pain.

No one saw her grimace upon getting backstage or heard […]

Published in ELK 2006 www.elkzine.com/books.html

February’s blizzards buried New York City with two-foot drifts and people conversed about Global Warming as a distant threat in comparison to Iraq. America was gearing up to war and nothing could stop the process, because the President was acting like a pit bull too stubborn to spit out the bone […]

It’s 8am and no sign of Easter Egg unters along Pattaya’s Beach Road. Most Christian are sleeping off celebratory drunks, hoping to rise from the dead for a recuperative beer in the late afternoon.

The Thais’ awareness of the Christian religious holiday comes from TV broadcasts of Filipinos flailing themselves into a messianic frenzy before subjecting […]

Atlanta ATC: “Tower to Saudi Air 511 — You are cleared to land eastbound on runway 9R

Saudi Air: “Thank you Atlanta ATC. Acknowledge cleared to land on infidel’s runway 9R - Allah be Praised.”
Atlanta ATC: “Tower to Iran Air 711 –You are cleared to land westbound on runway 9R.”
Iran Air: “Thank you Atlanta ATC. We […]

Evil lurked everywhere in 1965 and our 7th Grade Catholic school teacher, Sister Mary Josef, warned her male students in a special assembly that not only masturbation would condemn boys to hell, but repeated self-abuse led to hair sprouting from our palms and worst case scenario, blindness.

“Idle hands are the tools of the devil. Even […]

Years ago the EEU conducted a study about how many times a day certain nationalities touched another person. For Italians nearly a hundred, Spanish fifty, the French fifteen, the Germans five, and the English never, except in a fight.
The Thais are very particular about touching, especially in public.

The head should never be touched, since it […]