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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

From The Nation yesterday: “Bangkok Rock Festival 2007 - which was initially scheduled for February 10 and 11 - will be cancelled mainly due to the government’s ban on alcohol advertising.”
This is only the beginning.
Addendum: In case you aren’t aware, the proposed acts for the Bangkok Rock Festival 2007 included, wait for it, The Prodigy, [...]

I spent two hours in Asia Books today looking for something to read. The Wisdom of Confucius simply screamed at me and I bought it on a whim. As of yet, I’m too scared to pick it up. While I was in Paragon, I saw something utterly dumbfounding.
I decided to go to Burger King. I [...]

December 3 will go down in the books as the day one of the maddest ideas in Thai political history came into effect: the complete ban on alcohol advertising in all media.
“Spokesman of the Public Health Ministry Md Suphan Srithamma, revealed that the Public Health Minister Md Mongkol Na Songkla announced at the November meeting [...]

They could be Thailand’s answer to the Spice Girls. They have attitude, style and grace; everything needed to be bastions of ‘girl power’ in the Land of Smiles. They go by the name of Venus Flytrap and have been taken under the watchful wing of Sony BMG. The girls are known by the monikers of [...]

I ran ‘chkdsk’ as a ‘run’ command and my external hard drive is now fixed and readable. It looks as if I have all the data in-tact. I’m still not exactly sure what caused the problem, though. This is the first good news I have had all day and I am going to celebrate by [...]

Yesterday there was an anti-coup protest near Khaosan Road (an anti-martial law protest) organised by September 19 Network Against Coup D’etat. There were around 50-60 people at Thammasat Uni and another 300 or so at Sunam Luang. People congregated around 4 p.m.

There were the usual obligatory speeches that lasted for several hours, and then the [...]

I got home late last night to discover that my new Seagate external hard drive had failed after an impressive week’s worth of usage. I was only using it as a backup so I won’t lose anything too important, but it did have all my movie files on it so they are now gone forever; [...]

So I went down to Sony BMG today to interview Thailand’s newest pop-sensation ’Venus Flytrap’. I was in an edgy mood because I had only recently drunk a very strong cup of coffee (I rarely drink coffee) and it had sent me a little off-the-rails. As soon as I had drunk it I was short [...]

This is Thailand’s answer to the Spice Girls. They’re called Venus Flytrap and they go by the names of Hot, Cool, Naughty, Sweet and Posh Venus. I’m not making this up. So what do you think? Pretty girls? Getting your pulse racing? Did I mention that they’re all ladyboys?
It’s true. They are Thailand’s first (and [...]