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May Day Thailand

May 1, 2023 – 8:33 am

Thailand has an amazing galaxy on public holidays, mostly religious or honoring the royal family history. Many farangs are befuddled by this unexplained cosmos, especially since the nation celebrates three different New Year’s Days. Western, Chinese, and Thai. Today is a bank holiday in Thailand, but few Thais or westerners know the origin of this […]

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Kate Teale – David Henderson Opening – May 1

April 28, 2021 – 5:42 pm

I love both their works. I’ll be there at 1 PM. If permitted I might blather about Art. “Art is a good name for a man.” Andy Warhol.

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May Day 2017

May 1, 2020 – 10:57 am

‘re lucky you have a job.” “He was right in some ways, only because everyone around the world was a wage slave grinding out a subsistent living. Years ago unions protected the workers. The bosses fought the 40-hour week, the end to child labor, and other workers’s rights as was to expected from the filthy […]

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May Day

May 1, 2020 – 7:08 am

May Day 2011 and I’m sitting in a Tokyo Airport bound for Bangkok. A two week unpaid holiday, since Manny decided to stiff my vacation pay. The 82 year-old diamond dealer said, “I gave one week in January.” “You gave me butkis then.” I was a math major in college. “I remember one week.” “Because […]

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May Day

May 1, 2020 – 2:00 am

May Day 2015 I was sitting at my desk in the Fort Greene observatory. I knew today was an important labor holiday, but I wish that I was working and said so yesterday to my old boss from the Diamond District. “I wish I could give you a job, but there’s no business,” apologized the […]

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