Showing posts with label 2001. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2001. Show all posts
Friday, February 6, 2026
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Loy Krathong 2000
Loy Krathong 2001 I spent the festival of light with the worst girlfriend of Pattaya.
Three months earlier Bee and I met at a bar. I only had another week in Thailand. My next stop was Kathmandu.
In bed Bee said sadly, "Why you go mountains, when you can climb me?"
There were a thousands of reasons, but I answered, "I not go to Himalayas. I stay with you. It was a big mistake, but wew had a few good months.
For Loi Krathong she dressed in Thai finery.
Bee resembled a handmaiden to the goddess of water.
Even on a street where women serviced 'farangs' like me.
We drank at her go-go bar
Bee danced on the steel pole.
A Sạkh khiw bạs̄ or succubus on the prowl for sinners.
Mark knew her too.
I joked that she was danger.
It was more of a warning than a joke, but she was good to her kids and in the morning she was a goddess to a man with a hangover.
I should have know better, because we both had more than a little fiend in us than friend.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
September 10, 2001
I well remember 9/10/2001.
It rained all day in New York.
The day before I had almost gone swimming with my Brotosh diplomat friend, Alia, at Lake Awosting, except the park ranger blocked the path to the old granite sky lake. No one was allowed in the water after Labor Day to avoid legal problems from drunken locals and tourists.
There was no one swimming at the Coney Island or the Rockaways on 9/10/01.
Rain and a lot of it.
I recall turning on the TV and seeing the weather report for the next day.
Sunny cloudless skies and that sounded lovely to me.
ps it's cloudy this 9/10/2025
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
September 10, 2001
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