Monthly Archives: July 2009

Heaven or Hell

The model from Paris has converted to Fundamentalism with a vengeance. Her eternal life dogma is based on solid belief. Only two choices allowed to all souls. Heaven or Hell. I asked her if there were any alternatives. Her response “NO. Don’t fight it cause there’s only one way, and don’t worry once you admit [...]

Damn You Satan

The model from Paris shared an apartment on Ile St. Louis. Her husband paid the rent. He was an ex-legionnaire living in the South of France. She assuaged his suspicion about our having an affair by declaring at dinner on Cap d’Antibes that I was gay. In truth we were never lovers. I wasn’t her [...]

Filming THE LAST QUAALUDES ON EARTH

Several years ago my doctor and I were cleaning out the medicine cabinets of his deceased father’s office. It was in his parents’ old house. where his old man had spent over 40 years caring for thousands of Staten Islanders. We were surprised to find three small boxes of Quaaludes. Their expiration date was 1979. [...]

Clear Bangkok Sky

Bangkok in monsoon season

Dearth of Farangs

The Wall Street Journal was crowing over the Dow Jones hitting 9000. This ebullient economic news had little effect on Thailand. The Asian Highway was empty coming down from Chai-Nat. Morchit, the main bus terminal, was quiet. The bus to Pattaya had open seats and the motorway through Bangkok offered no traffic jams. Once Thailand [...]