Archive for the 'Life' Category

Mea Culpa

I am relatively honest and looking in the mirror I have to admit one thing.
I am a fuck-up.
I even have a letter from the CIA dated 1/2/80. Lawrence Woodward, director of Employment, wrote,”….no vacancy has been found for someone with your academic background and experience.” which was mostly smoking pot and hanging out at gay […]

One Small Step

The Golden Gate Bridge has been a magnet for suicide since its construction. One person jumps from the legendary span every two weeks. Only one person, a woman has jumped twice. She was successful on the second jump. Up to now there has been no safety net under the bridge, as the operators considered such […]

Pro Life @ 55

My sister is angry at me for fathering a baby with my mia noi and yesterday she said that I should get a vasectomy. I told her that there was no danger of my copulating with Rubenesque women of America and I would think about having my procreation devices cut upon my return to Thailand. […]

Better Lucky Than Good

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 […]

Another Small Step for a Farang ie Fatal

Mike’s Shopping Mall on Beach Road was the setting for yet-another suicide by a desperate farang. Pattaya’s Stairway to Heaven has seen a rash of fatal leaps over the years, this time from the secluded back of the building into the parking lot.
There is no suicide hotline in Pattaya, which is a tough town on […]