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In 1960 Nancy Kwan earned a Golden Globe nomination for her title performance in THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG.
Once a month my Irish grandmother took my older brother and me to the Loew’s Orpheum in Boston. I was 8. My grandmother was an indeterminate age. She claimed to have been born in the Year of […]

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 Pattaya […]

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 wife hates it.
She tolerates my […]

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 They have been replaced by tee-shirt shops selling XXXX size to overweight tourists bussed from Scranton PA or fancy bars serving $10 Buds to Wall Street junior execs and their fat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 of […]

I was sitting with several Thai women this afternoon. They extolled my eating spicy food. I mentioned that most Thai men don’t eat food dosed with chili. The two nearby Thai men argued, “Kin pet dai.”
“So you eat sum tam?” I asked about the fiery mango salad.
“Can eat.”
“Thai men can eat spicy food. Only gay […]