Monthly Archives: April 2021

Stumpy’s New Home

April 10, 2021 – 9:40 pm

Serendipity 3 was a famed ice cream parkor on East 60th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Stephen Bruce and his two associates, Calvin Holt and Patch Caradine, were the smiling headmasters for the fey waiter and busboy staff, who served the best sundaes in the world as well as a frozen hot chocolate drink […]

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LAST CALL IN BUTTE MONTANA – OCT. 1978 – BAD POETRY

April 6, 2021 – 10:36 pm

1974 I arrived late in Butte Montana. The bartender at the Cowboy Bar shouted ‘Last Call’. I ordered a whiskey and a beer chaser. Someone put on Gram Parsons I looked around the bar for my wife A man in Billings said Mona might be here He might have been right then, But tonight he […]

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COME ALL YE FAITHFUL by Peter Nolan Smith

April 4, 2021 – 2:14 am

Pattaya is not a city known for monogamy. Promises of fidelity last, until you leave the room, because this city on Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard offers temptations by the thousands and those temptations rarely say no. Bar girls, rent boys, ka-toeys, booze, and drugs added up to damnation according to Reverend Joe Stannis of the Holy […]

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On The Saudi Cross

April 2, 2021 – 10:19 am

In 2013 Saudi Arabia hit the headlines after a young Saudi prisoner announced that he had been sentenced to crucifixion for three days. The condemned man had been convicted of theft in 2009 and Sharia law in the southern province demanded capital punishment, even though main defendant, Sarhan al-Mashayeh, was 15 at the time of […]

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April Fool’s Day – Thai Visa

April 1, 2021 – 3:11 am

Thai visa is not normally known for its humor, however back in 2007 a morning’s alert about a new Luxury Tax on internet usage in Thailand struck a ‘Orson Welles’ Invasion from Mars panic in the blog’s readers. Even I fell for it, until my comrade Sam Royalle reminded me of the date. April Fool’s […]

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