Thailand Webzine, Bangkok Pattaya Thailand
The flight from Bangkok via Taipei and Anchorage to JFK lasted almost 36 hours. I wish the trip had taken even longer, however we landed on time ending the longest Sunday of my life. The immigration officer asked how long I had been out of the country.
“5 Years.” All of it in Thailand.
“Welcome back.” He […]
Muddy Waters just sang,
On the seventh hour
Of the seventh day,
On the seventh month,
The seven doctors say
“He was born for good luck.
And that you’ll see.”
I got $700
Don’t you mess with me.
If you can lay your hands on $700, nobody can fuck with you, don’t even adjust for inflation. It’s Nature’s law.
I met Muddy Waters for one […]
Ministers of new governments tend to issue inane proclamations to showboat their talents for the electorate and Thailand’s Culture Minister promoted himself to front page by stripping the teenage singers Girly Burdy of their spokesperson status after performing for the Songkran crowd on Bangkok’s San Road in what he deemed inappropriate attire.
Skimpy tops and hot […]
While governor of Minnesota Jessie Ventura suggested to those constituents suffering from obesity that they should push themselves away from the table to lose weight and now Thai PM Samak has told the nation that they should do the same to cope with the rising food prices, since the increases are simply part of the […]
Thailand had stockpiled nearly 2.1 million tonnes of rice against any shortcomings in future rice harvests, however Thai authorities were at a loss to explain how a 10% of the supply vanished without a trace from government warehouses. With fragrant rice selling at 135 baht a kilo, this loss has been calculated at 3.2 billion […]
The Koh Samui emergency ward was surprised to discover the cause of a middle-aged tourist’s stomach cramps was nearly a kilo of hashish worth approx. one million baht. After a two-hour battle to extract a long plastic bag extracted from the Englishman’s intestines, police arrested him on charges of smuggling the Class 5 drug onto […]
Thailand’s top copper popped off a warning to any foreigners planning on disrupting tomorrow’s torch run through Bangkok with immediate deportation with the added punishment of permanent blacklist running contrary to the Foreign Minister’s no one will be exiled from the Land of Smiles for demonstrations against the Celestial Kingdom’s torch relay from the Plaza […]
No one ever said life was fair and a Thai court proved this axiom to the max by sentencing 50 Burmese survivors of the Ranong death truck to two-months in prison before deportation to their impoverished nation. The 14 child immigrants have already been repatriated out of Thailand. The lorry driver is still on the […]
My flight from Bangkok to Taipei to Anchorage to JFK lasted through a very long Sunday. Total time - 37 hours and according my body have been suffering a severe case of narcolepsy. Two evenings ago Willem Dafoe extended an invitation to a screening of ANAMORPH by HS Miller. “I’m playing a cop.”
“You get […]
Grim Chinese flame protectors escorted the Olympic flame off a quasi-military aircraft after landing in Don Muang Airport. Some 30 Thai-Chinese supporters greeted its arrival in the early morning darkness of the closed airport. None of them waved Thai flags. A motorcade sped to an unannounced Bangkok Hotel, where it will be guarded by a […]
