Our little fundraiser and press conference events at the Rembrandt Hotel were briefly interrupted (not many noticed) by trouble between Thailand and Cambodia as my dad ran off to give a brief bout of telephone punditry to the press.For real inside information about the political situation in...
Here is a video of the second session of "Avatar Dvadas"... it is quite something, I think you will all agree. The first twenty minutes are a performance by Fong Naam of a traditional piece from the Ayuthaya Period (i.e...
I been asked to post the speech I gave the other day at the Oxford and Cambridge dinner...
Well, not that wild, really. The first one, the Oxbridge Dinner, was sort of hideous, though in a sense I saved the day at the eleventh hour, so I received a lot of kudos for appearing there. But I must admit that I'm not as in to Schadenfreude as I should be...
Here's a complete (not yet sound-sweetened or edited) recording of the first episode of Avatar Dvadas, a meta-symphony created by me and Bruce....And here's the blurb from the paper....t's a meta-symphony being created right in front of your very eyes and ears, music woven out of the very fabric of...
I dreamed that I was in a room learning about the speed of light. It was a beautiful sepia-toned room and we were examining the world through special magnifying glasses. The room ran on clockwork. It was full of cogs and gears...
Thai women don’t wear slacks on temple sites,Not to piss off the pious, or inflameThe appetites of our chaste cenobites,Or drown our morals-conscious town in shame.But if a girl forgets, and dares to flauntA pair of jeans before our sacred Buddhas,She’s but to rent a skirt from those who hau...
I've been reading an interesting discussion on Wikipedia that started when someone edited the page about me and removed the word "American" from the phrase "Thai American." Then this person and that person chimed in on the discussion page (one of them even claimed that I had had to have royal...
Someone or other has voted and guess what? This blog is in the Top One Hundred of all blogs written by horror novelists. That and a 35 cents will buy you ... oh, no, it won't...
Pan Chatley Love your "Jasmine Nights" so much. :)
In only about 6 weeks, my Thai-language book, "Phasaa mai kaengraeng - volume 1" is going to come out...
Well, it seems that the first really really public display of the renewed partnership between Bruce Gaston and me will take place in an incredibly high-profile arena ... as witness the above TV spot....Here's a version in English....
Well, there I was at the grand opening of the BACC and here I am with my dear mama, and the governor of Bangkok, who loves to tell the story of how I deliberately flunked out of Oxford by telling the interviewers I'd rather go to Cambridge...
Today I happened to read, in the paper, the petition signed by 3.5 million people asking H.M...
One of the exciting events this week was the opening of the "Bangkok ShOpera" at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center. For the next 2 months, creative people and music lovers will be able to hang out and get to know each other and we will be able to hand out information about the opera...
