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Mad Dogs And Farangs

July 14, 2023 – 9:22 am

Several hot seasons ago I met Jamie Parker at a bar on Soi Concrete. I wasn’t going to my old local. The owner had stiffed Nick Von Reiter for $5000. I had fought him on Soi 6, actually the brawl was two punches with the keys in my fist. At my age there is no […]

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Winchester Gun Club – Jomtien -2007

June 6, 2023 – 9:51 pm

For the last months of 2007 the facade of the old Beggar’s Arms in Jomtien had been undergoing renovation. The venerable Jomtien institution had been closed for the better part of a year. Someone had dropped money into resurrecting the short-time bar under the guise of the Winchester Club on Soi Wat Boon. I used […]

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Like Father Like Son 2008

June 3, 2023 – 5:29 pm

Fenway took a fall in the bathroom. Lots of blood. 8 stitches. No longer perfect. Everyone says his mother beat him. Mam would never touch him. Me maybe, but like father like son. My black eye is from a street fight in Pattaya. “It was a good fight, ma, but I lost.” In fact I […]

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TO LIVE AND DIE IN PATTAYA by Peter Nolan Smith

September 14, 2022 – 1:32 am

Pattaya isn’t what it used to be in the 90s or 80s. The coconut plantations have been replaced by luxury villas. Interpol and the Thai Police hunt down fugitives and the Russians have taken over the hills, so three summers ago I moved north to Sri Racha with my son Fenway and his mom. The […]

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THE END OF BABYLON by Peter Nolan Smith

June 14, 2022 – 12:08 pm

Pattaya had long been recognized as the world’s leading destination for sex addicts and lowlifes attracted to the sordid city on the Gulf of Siam by the countless bars, the easy women, lax enforcement of law, crooked police, rampant drug use, stunning ladyboys, and young boys. My ten years in the Last Babylon furthered my […]

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