Monthly Archives: June 2008

Guns Guns Guns

GUNS GUNS GUNS During the 1950s American kids were supposed to like guns. Our movie heroes slaughtered America’s enemies on the silver screen and TV cops danced provocative gun ballets on prime time. Armed with air rifles my friends and I re-enacted World War II in the woods behind my house. Imaginary bullets tore holes [...]

Thai Men Not So Smart Either

Farangs are constantly being bamboozeled in the Land of Smiles by their own kkind as much as the natives, but Thai men are just as susceptible to a smiling face as westerners as demonstrated when a middle-aged Thai man was relieved of his possessions in the Phillipines by a 19 year-old woman he met online. [...]

Russian Supermodel Copycats Pattaya Farangs

Pattaya probably leads the statistics for most suicides by tourists. Every week the Pattaya newspapers report about a fatal plunge from a condo balcony. No one ever calls for the landlords to place a sticker on the railing saying, “Falls from this height could be dangerous.” because suicides are usually considered to be losers, however [...]

2008 JonTien Beach 1 Picture 1 Word / Disgusting

From http://www.pattayaghost.com/2008/06/17/snapshots-pattaya-through-the-years/ Versus this scene in 1972 No jet skies, no beach chair mafia, no plastic bags. And I was 20 years old, so no grey hair or midriff spread either.

GOP out for Michelle Obama

GW Bush was elected president over Johy Kerry, because more American voters decided that Laura Bush made a better first lady than Mrs. Kerry, whose Heinz fortune came from outliving her husband. 2008 pits Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain in the First Lady election. Black against white. Chicago versus Arizona. New school/ Old School.