BANISHING BOREDOM
Bloggery on music, books, films, travel, wildlife and dark matters.
Dave Kendall, the Influential MTV Host and Journalist in Thailand, Passed Away in Bali
STOP PRESS Dave Kendall, the former creator and host of the MTV alternative rock show, “120 Minutes,” has passed away at the age of 63 in Bali. No official cause of death has been given. His legacy as a pioneering VJ, who first aired the video for...
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A Bangkok Mystery with Historical Heft
In The Case of the Two-Faced Killer, Mithran Somasundrum avoids all the seamy Bangkok cliches and the usual Thai stereotypes to draw blood from classic archetypes of the mystery genre mixed with contemporary settings and some blasts of Cambodian history. Despite the...
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Ode to All the Unsung Editors
Editors are the goalkeepers of the publishing world, saving many a writer from making heinous mistakes, or unclogging the constipated flow of a story, but they get little attention from readers and a whole lotta flak from writers. Paul Dorsey was not only a veteran...
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Scribbling a Lament for a Guitar-Slinger Named Al Miller
Jim Algie pays tribute to his former bandmate, Al Miller, a kingpin of the Edmonton and Toronto indie music scenes, who taught him how to play the guitar solo in Teenage Kicks, among many other priceless favors. One of the hardest parts of aging is seeing my old...
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Why Old Thailand Expats Never Really Leave the Kingdom
Many Thailand expats leave the the country only to return later. Retired author and former Youtuber Steve Rosse is one of them. His series of autobiographical pieces, Leaving Thailand, elaborates on the kingdom´s many allures and the challenges of living there. It...
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Rewatching a Film Noir Classic for Noirvember
Noirvember is a grand time to rewatch some of my favorite film noir movies, like The Third Man, DOA and Woman on the Run, as well as unearth some other diamonds in the rough, like Cover Up, with its punchy tagline: It Takes More than a Kiss to Cover Up a Killing. To...
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