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What can I say about Evel?
In 1956 he was fired from the Anaconda Mining Company for executing a wheelie in a earth-mover, which struck a power line and thus plunged Butte, Montana into a seven hour black-out.

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28 years ago Sid Vicious ODed in a West Village Apartment.

The bass player was out on $50,000 bail on the charge of stabbing his girlfiend to death in the Chelsea Hotel. Any Sex Pistols’ fan having watched SID AND NANCY would have voted for an acquittal. “I killed her…I can’t live without her. She must have fallen […]

During my 1973 summer tenure at the St. John of God Hospital overlooking Boston, my head porter’s observation about our guests clocking out in threes was proven time after time and continues to ring true as this week the first two deceased, Heath Ledger, Hollywood star, and Christian Brando, Marlon’s son, were rounded out by the demise […]

I worked at St. John of the Heavens Hospital the summer of 1973. Marilynn was working there. She went to Boston College. So did I. She was a candy striper. Orderlies earn five cents an hour than janitors. I call myself a ‘porter’. My first day I learned St. John’s was a waiting room for […]

Pattaya attracts pensioners and old geezers by the thousands. Rents are cheap, food is plentiful, drinking is less than the west, and you can drive drunk. Not always successfully as a Finnish man discovered on 3rd Road this week discovered after a head-on crash with a Honda Civic.

DOA.
He had been coming from a wedding.
Will his […]

Yesterday no one in Pattaya mentioned JFK’s bad day in Dallas.

Neither the BBC, International Herald Tribune, nor Bangkok Post wrote a single line about the November 22, 1963 tragedy. As you get old you forget as you get older you are forgotten, however 44 years might be a long time for some people, but I can remember exactly what I […]

The Golden Triangle has been a source of opium since the 1800s. Tribesmen in the mountains grew it for a cash crop as well as a source of comfort after a long day in the rice fields. The French controlled the overseas trade until the Commies took over in China. Mao had the opium dealers […]

Every week the Pattaya Media highlights another farang dying from suicide. Favorite methods of self-demise tend to be jumping from a condo, poison, or hanging yourself with a plastic bag around your head, but few people ever comment on the most popular technique ie drinking yourself to the grave and this is because the process […]

I never met Princess Diana, although a friend of a friend, Victoria Underwood, married her brother. Diana would have been at the wedding. I never received an invitation. No great loss, because the Princess of Wales wasn’t my type, however I viewed her death as a blow against the empire of goodness.

I arrived in London […]

My wife isn’t in Pattaya often. She prefers living in Ban Nok. Rice paddies, family, and probably a lover. This means eating out for me and most of my meals are taken at Chez Michel on Soi Buffalo. Cheap and cheerful. Two nights ago my dinner companion was Jamie Parker. The New Yorker had finally […]