You will be deeply missed, my friend.
Email Sara for more information on Collin and his books @ stonchatturat@gmail.com… Read more
On the road to Nirvana: Speed bumps
A world-historical sleep, maybe eight hours, but, more importantly, a deep sleep fraught with deep dreams. Up at 7 am and feeling pretty good. No time for exercise; Sara’s going to give me a ride to the Skytrain station.
But things start to go wrong. What the hell is this? Can a good sleep cast as dark a pall over proceedings as my usual insomnia? My laptop refuses to connect to our router, so I can’t back it up … Read more
LAYING THE GHOSTS TO REST
The concluding chapter in this serialization of Kicking Dogs.
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- UNIDENTIFIED FALLING OBJECTS. This past week a rogue construction crane dropped a 10-ton steel bucket through the roof of the headquarters of one of this country’s most feared ‘dark influences’. The operator subsequently fled the scene, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, given that the building belonged to
The master plan revisited
Kicking Dogs * Asia Books edition (out of print)
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- LOOKING GOOD. Have you heard how the authorities are going to solve Bangkok’s traffic problems for the big upcoming international pow-wow on industry and the environment? First, they’re going to declare a two-day national holiday, just to keep commuters off the streets. This way, the international delegates may be able to get to their nice meetings before the conference is over.
Live show
This week Jack is treated to Fat Fat’s live show. Then, compliments of Jack’s own motley crew, Fat Fat is himself presented with a show far livelier than anything he’d imagined.
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- GOURMET ALERT! The government has issued a warning: don’t buy fried grasshoppers from street vendors. It seems people upcountry are netting the grasshoppers in their tens of thousands and then spraying them with
Thinking it over
This week Mu finds a white hair on Jack’s head, and he thinks it might come from writing brochure copy for Fat Fat.
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- BUT DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH. Tests show there are now three more intersections in the city where it is a good idea not to breathe. Not to worry, though: in ten years or so the planners hope things might improve a little and
Impressive erections
This week Jack tells Tommy and Willie what he learned so far about security arrangements at Luckyland.
Current edition. Cover by Colin Cotterill
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- EAT YOUR HEART OUT, SINGAPORE. Various interests have announced plans to build what will be four of the world’s ten tallest buildings right here in Bangkok, all of them scheduled to go up in the coming year.
- DESIGNS ON NIC-HOOD. Bangkok is at once sprawling ever wider and
Luckyland dead show
This week Jack receives a gift. Fat Fat also introduces him to the Dead Show.
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- APROPOS OF NOTHING. Ambrose Bierce, in his Devil’s Dictionary, defined wealth as impunity.
- THEM AND US. One high public official says that the recent raid on the biggest illegal casino ever discovered in the city was a waste of time. Thai people like gambling, he says, and no amount of
3.8 billion-year-old gadget lust
Human beings – evolution’s cutting edge, at least in our experience and overlooking our possible supersession by machine culture – have recently evolved an insatiable lust for gadgetry, much of it iGadgetry. But is this in fact something new?
No. Gadget lust first emerged somewhere between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago.
Plus ça change
Science has concluded that 3.8 billion years ago or even earlier, life on Earth – a vast variety of microorganisms – … Read more
Fat Fat is a mangda
Last week we got reason to believe Willie and Tommy had a plan. But this week Hippolyte Lafleur explains to Jack how he’s in even more trouble that he first thinks.
Selections from Arno Petty’s Intelligencer and Weekly Gleaner
- COME SOON, VOICE-OPERATED WORD PROCESSORS. I heard some people talking, and they said one prominent fatcat has promised to have the hands of a certain reporter who has been indiscreet about how the above-mentioned