Thailand: It’s Pretty Awesome

“It’s too bad that a single guy can never go to Thailand.” – Chris Reid, cultural pundit. I remember this conversation from a couple years ago.  Chris basically made the point that Thailand seems like a nice place to visit, but it has such a sleazy reputation that any guy travelling there on his own [...]

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Ska Is Emphatically NOT Dead

It just retired to Thailand.  Ska music has been in a sorry state in the USA for a spell now: Moon Ska went bankrupt, Tim Armstrong got a drum machine, Dickie Barrett tried (and failed) to take over David Lee Roth’s radio show, the guy from Sublime died.  Even Goldfinger ditched their horn section and [...]

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Hotter and Sweatier…

Thailand: it’s kind of like Japan, only hotter, sweatier, and with more hippies. As in, it has any hippies. It’s really quite surprising how much this place reminds me of Japan.  I’m really wondering if, during the “tiger” boom days of the 80′s and 90′s, some Thais went to Japan, took a bunch of photos, [...]

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Why It’s Called “Rainy Season”

So, this may sound pretty weird to those of you from New Hampshire (my home state), but right now Thailand feels rather like the Squam Lake Science Center in Holderness, NH. Huh? Well, this goes back to those halcyon days of my youth, when Guns n’ Roses made albums that didn’t totally suck and you [...]

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Escape From The Subcontinent

The moment I stepped up to the urinal, I knew that I had left the subcontinent and arrived in East Asia.  You see, in East Asia, the toilets always flush twice.  Once before you do your business, and once after.  Despute spending 2 whole years living in Japan, I’ve never actually figured out WHY they [...]

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