MangoZeen

The husband is always the last to know and that seems the case in Pattaya too.
No one tells the husband.
The wife knows because Thai women have a secret drum language which reveals where and with whom you’ve been three seconds after the fact.
Farangs are left to their own devices.
A friend of mine saw another mate’s […]

Jocko Weyland is a famous skateboarder. He’s in Beijing as a correspondent for VICE magazine. I’ve been hassling him to attend the synchronized swimming, but his return emails don’t flare with any revolutionary zeal.
I wonder if he’s been living too long in the land of no.
China is even more ‘no-isitic’ than the USA.
But there is […]

A lice infestation swept through southern Maine in the winter of 1958 and each school district mandated crew cuts for all the boys without explaining why girls were exempt from this edict. Every Sunday night my father sheared his sons’ scalps to the bone with electric clippers and once we passed my mother’s inspection for […]

I know Shannon Greer since he was 16.
A West Village teenager with a good jump shot.
He was a clean version of Jim Carroll, the junkie author of BASKETBALL DIARIES.
I let him into the Milk Bar. Scottie Taylor, my boss, asked if he was under age.
“Not as far as I know.”
His basketball career went nowhere after […]

Here’s a photo of BIg Al’s wife ‘Yim” and their son ” Aj” at 9 weeks old. He’s 18.5 lbs already.
“I’m not a baby expert but I think that’s a little heavy!” Big Al writes me.
My five year-old daughter weighs 19 kilos.
Big Al’s AJ is sumo big.
And it doesn’t come from his wife’s side of […]