Monthly Archives: July 2009

Can’t A Brother Get A Break

July 30, 2009 – 7:25 pm

“I’m not black but there’s a lot of times I don’t want to be white.” Frank Zappa on HELP I’M A ROCK. White people had a hard time with Michael Jackson’s transformation to a white person. Bizarre was most of their takes. “He was so cute as a young boy.” What they don’t take into […]

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Damn You Satan

July 27, 2009 – 11:38 pm

The model from Paris shared an apartment on Ile St. Louis. Her husband paid the rent. He was an ex-legionnaire living in the South of France. She assuaged his suspicion about our having an affair by declaring at dinner on Cap d’Antibes that I was gay. In truth we were never lovers. I wasn’t her […]

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Filming THE LAST QUAALUDES ON EARTH

July 27, 2009 – 11:03 pm

Several years ago my doctor and I were cleaning out the medicine cabinets of his deceased father’s office. It was in his parents’ old house. where his old man had spent over 40 years caring for thousands of Staten Islanders. We were surprised to find three small boxes of Quaaludes. Their expiration date was 1979. […]

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Clear Bangkok Sky

July 27, 2009 – 8:20 am

Bangkok in monsoon season

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Dearth of Farangs

July 26, 2009 – 9:50 pm

The Wall Street Journal was crowing over the Dow Jones hitting 9000. This ebullient economic news had little effect on Thailand. The Asian Highway was empty coming down from Chai-Nat. Morchit, the main bus terminal, was quiet. The bus to Pattaya had open seats and the motorway through Bangkok offered no traffic jams. Once Thailand […]

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