Monthly Archives: September 2008

Pattaya’s #1 Snitch

September 29, 2008 – 3:37 pm

Some people can’t help being do-gooders. Pattaya has its own share with its local police volunteers. These Dudley Dorights act as informers for the fight against crimes such as naked girls, foreign prostitutes, visa overstays, and after-hours drinking. Some are Thais and a few are farangs. The most noted of their police works for the [...]

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Time to go Home

September 29, 2008 – 3:26 pm

Chris Rock does a piece about why men get married. “You don’t want to end up the old guy at the club.” The old guy at the club. Pattaya is filled with them. Drinking, drugs, chatting with girls, going to sin here and there. I’m a witness. I like the night life. Always have. My [...]

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12 Signs of Female Drunkenness

September 29, 2008 – 3:25 pm

GOTHAM BOOKS has disappeared from NYC along with my favorite bars, restaurants, and hardware stores. They have been replaced by tee-shirt shops selling XXXX size to overweight tourists bussed from Scranton PA or fancy bars serving $10 Buds to Wall Street junior execs and their fat fiancees. At the Gotham the staff debated which den [...]

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LAST CALL WITH ARTHUR

September 28, 2008 – 11:40 am

After my arrest for copyright infringement in Thailand I had to stick around for my court date. Three months without any income. I called my various friends around the world for contributions to my ‘stay out of jail’ fund. There was a schedule to these pleas and in April it was Scottie Taylor’s turn. I [...]

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Vanishing New York

September 27, 2008 – 10:35 am

“What did you miss about New York?” My friends ask me and looking around the city I have to admit that during my 6 year absence I missed nothing of the now, but everything of the then. Gone are CBGBs, the St. Mark’s Theater, The Orchida, Times Square, the Babydoll Lounge, Max’s, Dave’s Luncheonette ad [...]

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