Monthly Archives: February 2021

Noblesse Ne’er-Do-Wells

February 20, 2021 – 6:10 am

Ten years ago Thaksin’s red shirts of targeted Bangkok’s luxury shopping malls of their political rivals, the elite yellow shirts. The riotous schism between the two classes was a mystery to most foreigners who regarded their adopted country as the land of Smiles, but a restrictive way of life to the majority of Thais. I […]

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Palm Beach Ne’er-Do-Well

February 19, 2021 – 7:33 am

Many of my female friends laughed upon hearing about my summer job on Palm Beach. “What’s so funny?” “we know what’s going to happen.” Each women was possessed by a singular vision. “You’re going to fleece some heiress.” “Fleece?” Both my wife and mistress had green-lighted any multi-zero gigoloing with turtle-fleshed heiresses on the fabled […]

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Thai Hair-Cut No No

February 18, 2021 – 6:01 pm

Several years ago I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to a party in Nolita. The city skyline shimmered under a sky dotted by the few stars brilliant enough to pierce New York’s light umbrella. Tourists flashed photos in the dark and the bridge hummed with the passage of cars and trucks. The night was bitter […]

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The Sacrifice of Lent

February 18, 2021 – 1:50 pm

Lent is the six-week period of Catholic fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter, allowing the faithful the chance to atone for the previous year’s sins by mirroring the span of time the Messiah spend in the desert before He succumbed to the temptations not of Satan, but his own mortal flesh. While I’m a full-blown […]

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The Lent Of No Beer

February 17, 2021 – 9:58 am

Lent is the six-week period of Catholic fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter, allowing the faithful the chance to atone for the previous year’s sins by mirroring the span of time the Messiah spend in the desert before He succumbed to the temptations not of Satan, but his own mortal flesh. While I’m a full-blown […]

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