Monthly Archives: June 2023

2 X The Man 3 X The Woman

June 20, 2023 – 12:56 am

Yesterday I was at the Tuesday Wat Chai market looking for bootleg Bugs Bunny DVDs for my son. There were none and I left the open-air square, heading for my tailor. Pinky was making a new jacket for me. Cut to size. Walking down Pattaya Tai a woman called my name. The pseudonym. It was […]

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Banksy?s Jean-Michel Basquiat

June 19, 2023 – 4:37 pm

Banksy’s Basquiat being stop and searched (2017) on show in Glasgow. Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. All the cops working the dope streets of the lower East Side knew Jean-Michel and that he carried money with him. He was a steady source of cash and a golden goose For the 9th precinct. Unlike Michael Stewart […]

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In Vino Veritas or Oblivio

June 19, 2023 – 12:03 pm

From 1847 to her death in 1901 Queen Victoria had ruled the British Empire from Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight. Prince Albert, her consort, had designed the royal residence with the aid of Thomas Cubitt, the London architect. Once finished the Italian Renaissance palazzo on the Solent Osbourne House served as a refuge […]

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Fucking with Robots

June 18, 2023 – 2:11 pm

Amusing yourself in a hospital I can’t believe how satisfying fucking with the robot is. Robots built to obey Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics from I ROBOT. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey orders given it by […]

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A MAN OF SPEED by Peter Nolan Smith

June 18, 2023 – 9:42 am

Father’s Day has complemented Mother’s Day since 1910, although the holiday remained unofficial for decades and most Americans treated Father’s Day as a joke, until LBJ proclaimed the Third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six Years later Richard Nixon signed a bill to include Father’s Day in the American pantheon of holidays. “The only […]

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