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1/7/2012 4:19:29 AM
I was back in the United States recently, to attend my friend Steve Jobs funeral. “Steve”, I whispered over the headstone (which had iPhone4s and a camera function); “Now (in this twilight moment with the iWind whispering through the iPine trees and the last light of iDay fading, etc., etc. ) “It seems trivial that you stole all my ideas, and because of that the world doesn’t recognize I, Ken Silver, as the most creative genius of all time!”
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12/8/2011 2:36:38 AM
Well, maybe the sex isn’t a new development. I saw a dog mounting another dog once on the streets of Chiang Mai, so I guess there has always been sex in Thailand. But the possibility of encountering a hungry crocodile as you peacefully snorkel off of Phi Phi Island… well that is what Tourist Boards might call a “delightful new development (for the crocodile)" in Thai Tourism.
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11/29/2011 4:33:38 AM
And I’m not talking perfumed soaps and a handwritten note afterwards, either. I’m talking sexual violence with all the steady green lights and blinking cursors and 5GB Ram –Ram! Ram! Ram!- a young computer has to offer.
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11/10/2011 1:28:26 AM
It was a love affair for the ages. Born of the oldest of human desires, and the newest of inferior nuclear technology. The whole world now knows the story of the Rajah and the Hellcat. He, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune designing low sea walls around a Japanese nuclear reactor complex. ‘To merge the beauty of the sea with the glowing heart of the sun’ had read his sales pitch.
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11/1/2011 12:39:05 PM
Don’t read this! Thank you! It’s actually being written not by me –a God fearing Unitarian Universal Polar Bear Christian –but by the most disreputable man in Asia, the self-styled “Rajah”.
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10/22/2011 2:43:58 PM
As you may recall, I was wandering the dirt paths of coastal Moalboal, Philippines, in search of a snorkel tour boat. None to be found… And then… a welcome voice…
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10/13/2011 11:26:16 PM
Somewhere… maybe India, maybe Cambodia, maybe Africa, there is a huge, ancient tree known to those in the know – such as myself - as Monkey Central. From the top branches of this tree an immortal organization of monkeys - Monkey See Monkey Do - has kept bemused watch on humanity since the first ape man stood on his feet. The monkeys see, and when the need arises, they do.
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9/28/2011 12:51:07 AM
The most frequent question I get asked in reference to this blog on Asia is “Ken, exactly what kind of an idiot is you?” To which I proudly reply “I am Tomorrow’s’ Idiot! I am the Idiot of the Future!” And, what a future it’s going to be! Lets’ all start drinking too much now!
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9/9/2011 11:54:07 PM
It has been said that the Thai people do not know the laws of Thailand, nor do they care. This is the wonderful difference between the Thai and American outlooks on the law and the legal system.
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8/31/2011 11:03:20 PM
Money is a number. At one time sheep were money. Or a goat. Or maybe a couple of chickens. How’s that for a refrain in a song? “At one time sheep were money, and money was sheep”.
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