They WANT us out!

[Mai-Kee]

I don't need anybody telling me when I shall go to bed. Mr. Fucksin Shitawatra is not my father! And if I want to party all night long then I don't need no bloody commies (their days are counted anyway), no stupid muslims and definitely no moralistic rightwingers who turn off the music and on the lights at 12pm. Those creeps are so damned stupid that's really unbelievable! They didn't understand anything.
BKK was on the way to be one of THE hot-spot cities in Asia! Of course in the entertainment business, because that's what Thais are good in (who ever has been to China knows that the Chinese are not, even in HK). And I don't mean the sleazy bar-scene. Bed-Supperclub for instance is one of the coolest bar projects on this planet (a very well done copa of an Amsterdam club). They won prices for the architecture and the concept and attract many who just came to BKK because of the partying. It's one of the BKK fashion&movie industry hangouts and this industry developed huge in the last years. The mix of sleazy&cool in this city was one of the hippest trends in the latest fashion&music movements. People from all over this planet went to BKK to get this special kick for their stylings, music or movies. They would never have gone to bloody S'bore - BKK is/was it! Mr. Fucksin always wants to attract the money crowd and be important as well, this embarrassing nouveau riche asshole. Well can you imagine the jet-set crowd from Sardinia, all the Flavio Briatores and Donatella Versaces of this world with their rat-tale of models behind going to a country with a closing hour??? ...hahahaha! 2am was an insult already ! You can have fun in Rome, Barcelona, Ibiza, Rio and maybe South Beach Miami until the next day. BKK was on the way to become the trendsetter metropole in SE Asia, maybe in Asia. But those moral-suckers kick themselves out of the game - what a bunch of loosers, Jesus Christ!!!

MK
PS:...and I'm sorry Stogie, but I don't wanna hang around at gas stations - not in my regular life and definitely not during my holidays!
PPS: "In Thailand the police don't enforce the law just because it is the law." As I said you aint seen nothing yet. Remember Lee Kuan Yew and Alfredo Lim. Don't be naive, buddy!

[Guest]

Dear Dommy: Thanks for the kind mention.
During the Vietnam "Conflict" (I just LOVE that word!), I was stuck in - you guessed it! - Vietnam. Luckily, most of the "action" I witnessed was our deserters and assorted fuck-ups (including yours truly) getting beaten by screws inside Long Binh Jail (did I say "luckily"? My balls still ache! The screws were sadists extraordinaire).
However, the "good boys" had their choices of Rest and Relaxation in places like Thailand (good); Singapore (at THAT time, good); Malaysia (then and now, fair); Philippines (good);
Hong Kong (then, good); Japan (then, good); and Hawaii (expensive, designed for married guys who wished to meet up with their stateside wives as quickly and as painlessly as possible).
From talking to my old buddy Stoney (USN, River Rat, Mekong Delta, 1971); he LOVED Bangkok during his R&R there. He was put up inside a fancy-pants hotel on New Petchburi Road - at that time the CENTER of Western-oriented nightlife in Bangkok.
He had such a good time - fell in love, smoked Thai sticks (now VERBOTEN, do NOT get involved with this NOR any other illegal substances in TODAY'S Thailand!); and cried when he left Bangkok.
Two years prior to Stoney's memorable Bangkok R&R, former U.S. Airman Rick Menard opened the very first go-go bar on Patpong Road #1: THE GRAND PRIX. I had the honor of barfining a genetic girl there during my 1990 trip to Bangkok!
Patpong did NOT become the premier redlight district in Bangkok until the late 1970s and then it catered to a whole new crowd of Westerners: mainly horny Europeans with long vacations and heavy coin.
Soi Cowboy popped up in the middle 1970s - started up by U.S. Air Force vet Larry "Cowboy" Edwards.
Nana Plaza came about long afterward in 1984. CASANOVA was one of the first bars to make it there and it's still going strong today.
There were all sorts of controversies regarding Western-oriented nightlife in the Land of Smiles, way back when.
I can remember back in 1985, my friend David Rinck told me that the English-language newspapers (BANGKOK POST and NATION) were full of anti-nightlife diatribes, editorials, pronouncements from crooked politicians, etc.
What is different NOW?
Taksin - unlike his clownish predecessors - is one of the richest men in Southeast Asia (MONEY TALKS) and always seems to have his ducks correctly lined up in neat, little, very efficient rows. He has also bought plenty of time for himself by cozying up to the Thai proletariat (free medical care) and the Thai peasantry (forgiveness of past loans and issuance of new loans).
He is a formidable figure.
Will Western-oriented nightlife survive him?
Not if his opposition (the politicians with heavy interests in Western-oriented nightlife) stay disunited.
Nuff said.
Mr. Lonely