Earlier today this report came in from The Nation: “A pro-democracy group Wednesday threatened to organise a mass protest on December 10 demanding the government to call a general election within 90 days. “Chanapat na Nakhon, chairman of Democracy Lover Network said that labourers from Bangkok, farmers from ten northeast provinces, five southern provinces and six northern province totalling 30,000 …
Montonn Jira comes to Wrong Disco
This is the flyer for a party I am organizing with my friend Bill. I didn’t design the flyer, Note from Dude/Sweet did, but I think it looks quite cool and might brighten this place (my blog) up a little bit until it eventually drops off the page. Anyone who wants to come to the party is welcome to do …
Nov 29, 2006
Farang beggars in Bangkok
Farang beggars are a difficult bunch to fathom. There’s a few of them about, and I don’t just mean the hippie oddballs who sleep on the streets of Khaosan. There are real, non-native beggars out there. The most notorious of these is a Dutchman who sits around BTS stations with a sign declaring that he is 6,000 baht away from …
Nov 26, 2006
Nick Drake
He died at the age of 26 from a Tryptizol overdose. He released just three albums, none of which sold more than 5,000 copies while he was alive. He was cripplingly shy, depressed, and recluse. His music was simple, often stark, devoid of unnecessary clutter. His influence has lived on, more than 30 years after his death in 1974, as …
Nov 25, 2006
Keith Summers – contender for this year's "Maddest Person in Thailand" award
This man is Keith Summers. If you’ve been keeping up to date with the Bangkok blogging/online community, then you may have come across the name ‘John Galt’, an alias used by Summers in his online mission to bring down the infamous Stickman.For several years now, Stickman Bangkok has played host to Stickman’s own weekly column, a multitude of readers’ submissions, …
