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Benjamin Franklin proposed the turkey for the national bird. The turkey of his era was nothing like the domesticated bird slaughtered for Thanksgiving. The wild turkey was a cunning wood creature living in large communes of fellow avians. Huge flocks of brightly plumed turkeys would cloud the skies. Benjamin Franklin was vehemently against the choice […]

BY PETER NOLAN SMITH
Published by OPEN CITY 2004
The Columbus Day weekend began with a grizzly rain splattering on the Hudson. I shut the windows for the first time in months and dressed in heavy clothes for breakfast. The shoes and jacket were unnaturally heavy after a season of shorts and sandals. Luckily Global Warming guaranteed […]

Whenever I have a married couple or single mother and kid visit me in Pattaya, I take them on a tour of the various tourist points of interest; the Khao Keo outdoor zoo, the Temple of Truth ( the biggest wooden structure in the world, and Nong Nooch Gardens. while steering well clear of my […]

Wall Street collapsed this fall. The whys were discussed by countless TV analysts. None of them seemed to make any sense of the collapse and the government appeared out of touch with the economic disaster. The catastrophe had no effect on me. I was broke, despite having lived the past three months in Palm Beach, […]

a joke from the roue of Bangkok, Alan Platt
The 7 Dwarfs go to the Vatican and, because they are the 7 Dwarfs, they are immediately ushered in to see the Pope. Grumpy leads the pack.
‘Grumpy, my son,’ says the Pope, ‘What can I do for you?’
Grumpy asks, ‘Excuse me your Excellency, but are there any […]