Monthly Archives: May 2009

Persona Grata a Thailand

May 29, 2009 – 7:23 am

January 2008 started with my arrest for ‘copyright infringement’ by the Thai police from the cyber-crime division. The commander told me not to worry about anything, despite the national TV presenting this arrest as a major blow against intellectual piracy. 20,000 shirts and $250,000. None of it mine. I was guilty of possessing 20 shirts, [...]

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Sleeplessness 101

May 27, 2009 – 7:19 am

Last year my sister handed me a newspaper clipping at her kitchen table. She had circled a request for a medical survey on sleeplessness. Beth Israel Hospital was paying $1500 to those candidates completing the 10-day experiment. I was broke and called the clinic. The receptionist scheduled an interview for later that morning. My sister [...]

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Walking Street 1987

May 26, 2009 – 8:23 pm

I wish I had a time machine to go back to 1987. I was living in New York doing blow. I can’t even remember if I was working. Walking Street would have been so much fun. The ticket couldn’t have cost more than $600, but I got it together by 1990. I was Big Sexy. [...]

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Pattaya 1988

May 26, 2009 – 8:14 pm

It’s hard to imagine Pattaya untouched by development. I first arrived in 1990. The only disco was the Marine. A girl took me back to a Jomtien hotel. No one lived out on the beach. We swam at dawn. Little fish leaped from the turgid water. It wasn’t clean then, but it was paradise once. [...]

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A Sense of Loss A la Thailand

May 26, 2009 – 8:14 pm

American women are fairly unforgiving about adultery. If their husband cheats on them, they rape him for 50% of everything. American men cry about this loss of material goods, however Thai women react in the extreme to their mate’s infidelity. Last summer I was sitting in a West Palm Beach Thai restaurant with my friend [...]

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