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I’ve been back in New York two days after 5 years in Thailand. Culture shock has been minimalized by my refusal to leave Andrew Pollack’s $3 million Ft. Greene brownstone, however on Tuesday I rendezvoused with my biographer to recount the circumstances of my exile from the Land of Smiles.

“Come meet me at Lucien’s on […]

Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties & local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman.

Many females use a date rape drug on the market called ‘ Beer ‘.
The drug is found in liquid form and is available anywhere. It comes in bottles, cans, or from […]

My time in Pattay ran out from days to hours to minutes and last night after a dinner at my friend’s house on Soi Batman I thought about having a drink at the Buffalo Bar. A Gin-Tonic. Maybe five. I drove my scooter up to the entrance. I looked inside. It was only 8pm. The […]

Faced with the Songkran festival the Thai police had announced their plans to rein in annual mayhem by banning water guns and tanktops on women as well as launching their War on Drugs and the arrest of anyone wearing combat fatigues without any solution to the drunk driving which kills over 1000 Thais nationwide during […]

The Coen Brother’s NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN won the Best Film Oscar this year. Three minutes of the creepy lead actor’s haircut was enough for me. I chucked the DVD into the swamp behind my house and haven’t heard from it since, but at the Pattaya court I ran into another farang who was […]

Pattaya is a city of drinkers. Thais drink. Farangs drinks. Both to excess. The Thai word for hang-over is hang which means your skull is dry as a bone. Kingsley Amis once said, “I had a hang-over so bad I thought I was going antlers.”

I know hw he feels and here’s a modern rating system […]

Entering Pattaya on Sukhumvit it is hard not to notice the recent expansion of the Bangkok-Pattaya Hospital. This annex is being prepared for the expected arrival of retirees moving into the thousands of houses being constructed from Naklua to Jomtien. The proposed name of this extension appeals to the spiritual background of the patients.

Gra-dai teung […]

Yesterday Pattaya bars were closed at 6pm in accordance with Thai tradition for Maka Bucha Day. The punters huddled in darkened corners of their rooms with clandestine bottles of booze, praying for the dawn to bring relief from the ban of alcohol sales.

Surprise.
Tomorrow is Election Day for the Thai Senate. Bars close today at 6pm […]

A ladyboy a go go sounds like a good idea. Ladyboys are wild. They like to strut like Vogue models. Ka-toeys will do almost anything. Long legs. long hair. Skinny bodies. The right linghting and you’re lost in a haze Tv hell.
Location is key. Soi 6 seem the perfect street for such an enterprise and Tornado a […]

Thai dogs like to bark. They bark all night and no one says a word. The little chow across the street once yapped for 17 hours non-stop, until its voice went as raspy 50 year-old Gitane smoker. 
Thai dog’ favorite targets are those unfortunate rubbish divers eking out a living in search of recyclable bottles, paper, and treasure. Mop […]