The Foot Soldiers
If there’s ever a second class citizen, it’s the Bangkok pedestrian. Driven to despair A friend’s wife recently complained about how she was nearly knocked…
If there’s ever a second class citizen, it’s the Bangkok pedestrian. Driven to despair A friend’s wife recently complained about how she was nearly knocked…
Conversations with the fearless representative of the fuzz, Sgt Nop. The porn brokers Have you ever wondered what happens to the pornographic magazines confiscated in…
A rather tatty “cocktail lounge” was the scene one evening of a memorable, though somewhat brief, visit. Apart from a couple of gentlemen of Middle…
It is hardly a secret that in certain establishments girls can be taken out providing the customers pay a fee to the bar for the…
In most Thai entertainment places, along with overpriced drinks, customers are usually served heavily salted peanuts, popcorn or other allegedly appetizing items, whose sole function…
Bangkok’s nightlife needs no introduction. Inadmissible evidence? Many years ago American singer Connie Francis made the hit record Lipstick On Your Collar, a song which…
A number of people have enquired where I first met my esteemed maid, Ms Yasothon. It was in the mid-Seventies when I was sharing a…
It is not unusual for new faces from the Yasothon village to periodically appear at our residence. They range from ancient crones to tiny kids,…
At times the Crutch residence resembles a zoo. One morning I was wandering around the garden trying to recall if I’d done anything particularly foolish…
The name alone is a killer. Krungthepmahanakhonamornrattanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokpopnopparattanaratchathaniburiromudomratchaniwetmahasathanamornphimanawartansatitsakkatatiyavishnukamprasit. It means The City of Angels, the Great City, the Immortal Magnificent Jeweled City of Great Indra, the…