Had a lovely road trip with Weez and Boop… the sky was a bit gray, but spirits were quite high.
Newt was quite talkative when I got back, and was happy to see me.
Follow the wiggling chicken for a smattering of selected pics from the journey.
Moment of Lyric: – youtube
THE AMERICAN:
Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don’t know what the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner
Time flies — doesn’t seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change — don’t you know that when you
Play at this level there’s no ordinary venue
It’s Iceland — or the Philippines — or Hastings — or —
or this place!
COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
THE AMERICAN:
One town’s very like another
When your head’s down over your pieces, brother
COMPANY:
It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
THE AMERICAN:
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town —
COMPANY:
Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
THE AMERICAN:
Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
THE AMERICAN:
Siam’s gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
And thank God I’m only watching the game — controlling it —
I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of mate I’m contemplating
I’d let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlors —
COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me
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2 years ago – thermo-issues, helping cockeyed find spammers
3 years ago – bro, health, monkey, sun-sentinel cam, clown lovin’.
4 years ago – hard rain, dream thoughts, tests, IM spam
5 years ago – evil news, louche, fill in the blank, gush, insane beautiful people journal nonsense (he’s now suspended)
6 years ago – Mr. Rogers, April hassles, H is pregnant with B’s kid, inevitable slippery, mootpoint adds me to his reading list