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The English like to drink. Beer courses in their veins in the general direction of Mayhem Station and London Transit decided this year to ban alcohol on the Tube. Yesterday was the last day of Beermas and thousands of the faithful celebrated the end of underground drinking with an impromptu party.

Six stations were closed by […]

It’s June 1 2008 on Palm Beach. A barrier island off the Florida coast. So many of the mega-rich have migrated to their summer haunts of the Hamptons, Nantucket, and the South of France that the Sunday night streets of this exclusive resort feel, as if the Khmer Rouge had marched the wealthy into the […]

Entering Pattaya on Sukhumvit it is hard not to notice the 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 plays to the spiritual background of the patients.
Gra-dai teung […]

Years ago I was driving on the Autoroute du Sud toward Perpignan. I stopped at a Cafe de Relais to a coffee. At the bar several routiers or truck drivers were drinking in an afternoon aperitif. In this case Calvados. Coming from the States I was slightly surprised that the Etat du France sanctioned the […]

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 […]