Category Archives: Bangkok

FALL FOR YOU LONG TIME

Thais have an excuse for everything as seen in this tale from the Old Roue of Bangkok. Here’s a classic for the ages. My little pole dancer, Oy, was supposed to come see me tonite. But… “Cannot come tonight.” “Why not?” “I have accident.” “Bad?” “Very bad.” “What did you do?” “Hurt my leg.” “Motorbike?” [...]

Incommunicado

Back at the end of the last century there was a short time when the world was devoid of cell phones and computers. Communications between distant countries was a chore. While in Bangkok I would hire a tuk-tuk for the short trip from the Malaysia Hotel to the Bangko GPO on Charoen Krung Road. The [...]

Overstay in Paradise

Thailand’s beaches and nightlife combine with a rich cultural heritage and world-class cuisine to create SE Asia’s # 1 tourist destination. Millions of foreigners flock to the tropical country and hundreds of thousands of farangs fall in love with the torpid life under the palms. I myself have upped houses in the USA to live [...]

Ava’s Patpong Story 1977

Men like to think of Thailand as a Disneyland for one sex of the species. Truthfully not many farang women frequent Patpong or Nana Plaza other than those harridans testing the fidelity of their disgruntled boyfriends and husbands, yet the temptation of Thai hookers is sometimes too strong as was the case of Ava, my [...]

Death Song Thailand

Norman Mailer wrote his 1979 Pulitzer-winning EXECUTIONER’S SONG about Gary Gilmore’s execution by the State of Utah. His crime. Murder. Method of death. Shooting Squad. Gilmore refused any reprieve to be death penalty #1 with the rebirth of capital punishment in the USA. Gary Gilmore remarked that he was different from most people, because he [...]