Category Archives: women

THE SLEEP OF THE DEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2020 – 1:20 am

Two weeks after my arrest by the Thai Cyper-Crime Unit in 2008 I was drinking at Donovan’s Sports Bar on Pattya’s Sai 3. Most of the clientele was watching a golf match, while I concentrated on drinking a vodka-tonic. Golf meant nothing to me. After Tiger Woods birdied a hole, the TV went to commercial […]

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Me Too # Not Far Enough

October 27, 2019 – 11:08 am

In 1971 Bernardo Bertolucci directed Marlo Brando and Maria Schneider in LAST TANGO IN PARIS. The film featured a controversial rape scene between the two actors. Bertolucci and Brando coerced the nineteen year-old actress into performing the scene. Wikipedia reports that she later said, “They only told me about it before we had to film […]

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Thai Bar Rules

August 3, 2018 – 5:59 am

When I first arrived in Pattaya 1991 go-go bars listed a set of rules on the wall. No photos, no fighting, no guns, no hand grenades, no durians. A few bars even had dress codes. Shirts and shoes were required by male patrons. No bare feet were allowed on the premises other than on stage. […]

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Thai Love Potion Comeback

February 19, 2018 – 7:38 am

Most foreigners have little knowledge of Thai magic. Fewer have experienced its influence, however their ignorance doesn’t diminish the power that incantations and spells hold over the Thais. Forget the 7/11s, the Benzes, the DVD players, the Thai’s greatest fascination is with magic, because while money might be an turn-on for most women and beauty […]

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How Many Women?

January 21, 2018 – 3:42 pm

Due to the government shutdown and probably a Trump edict the National Park Service offered no estimate of yesterday’s crowd numbers in Washington. The newspapers published attendance in the tens of thousands, however I venture the number was closer to 300,000. Trump congratulated the gathering of achieving the lowest unemployment rates ‘ever’ thanks to his […]

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