Well, it’s official. The local FamilyMart has a big sign on the counter confirming that no alcohol will be sold from 6pm Friday 14th to midnight on Sunday 16th.
The following weekend (21-23), expect the same restrictions to be in place for the election.
Bars aren’t being asked to close, but if they can’t sell beer, don’t expect them all to stay open. Better start stocking up…
Another Nail In The Coffin
Nana Plaza’s Angelwitch has claimed the dubious crown of being the first of the Nana bars to increase their prices as we enter the high season. You’ll now be expected to pay ฿140 or ฿145 for a beer, depending on your preferred brand. No doubt others will follow suit.
With the Nana branch of Subway apparently on its way out, and the Soi 23 branch going 24-hours, it’s pretty obvious where the action is these days. For the hard of thinking, I mean Soi Cowboy.
The End
Which brings me to the point. After just over a year and a half of sharing my Bangkok adventure with friends and strangers alike, it’s time to move on.
As promised, I’ll be in Baccara on Christmas Day, celebrating in time-honoured fashion. If you’d like to join the fun, there are a few rules to observe, courtesy of Maddox:
- Do not make direct eye contact with me.
- You must adhere to the following procedure when shaking my hand:
- Stand directly in front of me with both feet together.
- Extend your arm in front of you and wait for me to engage if I choose to do so.
- If I grant you a hand shake, you may hold my hand, pump once or twice, and then promptly let go. I will then wipe my hand with a moist towelette, and you will bow, step aside and quickly walk away.
- You must stand at least 3 feet (1 m) apart from me at all times.
- Do not talk directly to me. If you want to tell me something, write it down and hand it to an assistant.
- Formal attire is encouraged (suit + tie if possible).
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a book to write.
Well, dang.
Sorry to see you go, though I've enjoyed reading your many stories and observations over the months I've lurked here. I'm making my first trip to LOS next fall, so maybe I'll get a chance to write about a few of my own tales, eh?
Cheers!
View all comments by JAFO
At fucking last.
View all comments by Pants Elk
Well shit. NOW who am I supposed to live vicariously through? I think I'll go drinking on Friday at the local quasi-pub out of spite, and devote my inevitable inebriation to this blog.
View all comments by Maomak
it has fun reading your tales of living in bkk.you had alot of fun enjoyment.enjoy your retirement i,am sure you will surface again in time.what is good for the new year now.what is your advice
View all comments by geoff davies
I knew it - your in love
Or gay
Or both
I reckon gay
Call me
View all comments by Penfold
Cheers BBB - may your Dromedary never want for water
View all comments by doctorbond
Best of luck dude. Book signing at you know where.
View all comments by pmmp
Well I saw it coming. The early excited stories to the recent lame attempts at keeping it going. You were struggling to find a reason to continue and good on you to call it quits while you're still ahead (or still getting head). It's a great site and one to be proud of. It's just that Bangkok thang … i remember my first night here, the neon, the traffic, the tarts … it was amazing. Like walking into a movie you could touch, smell and jizz on. But like the kid in the candy store, the taste goes away and when whoring becomes as functional as taking a dump it's time to take a break. I've had three years here. First year was "amazing thailand" at it's best, then it seemed like i was trying to find the excitement i had before and not coming up trumps. Now i'm happy to take a dump in some sorid short time hotel once a month to get it out of my system and go back to my ex-hooker wife - who no doubt gets dumped on far more often than me. I hope the book works out and teaching english keeps paying the bills.
View all comments by twerp
@JAFO: Thanks, dude. Drop me a line when you write about your first trip. There's nothing like it in the world.
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
BBB, Enjoy your time out. I'm sure I'll be seeing you around!
View all comments by Bangkok Virgin
If you want to contribute to nana journals in the future, feel free.
(Although I may need to change the name to the Soi Cowboy Post.)
I'll be happy to promote the book on the site.
http://nanajournals.blogspot.com/
Cheers,
ArtTv
View all comments by ArtTv
Guess I passed by just in time to see it go. While briefly, I've truly enjoyed it here. Seedy yet classy, mudane yet stylish, gloriously perverted and a fascinating blast.
Thanks and all the best with whatever it is you're planning out.
View all comments by Kairo
"Au revoir et merci" from Paris. I was a regular reader of this site, and enjoyed it very much (i'm not French… i have enough crosses to bear as it is)
View all comments by Sam
So sorry to hear of you packing it in - would look forward to the book, but unless it is penned by BBB, how will we know which one is yours ?
View all comments by Cowboy Old Hand
First the Big Mango and now this…sigh! BBB, you wrote well and write regularly. Both tasks are challenge. Pay no attention to Twerp's comment. You were good to the
endvery last post. (Ditching this blog is not an "end".) If you are serious about the book writin' thang, you are in for some real misery. Running through the set of Mango girls again — oh, heck, three times charmed! — will help you along. Good luck, dude. ~tsongpaView all comments by Tsongpa
"Both tasks are challenge." see what I mean? No, I'm not Japanese.
View all comments by Tsongpa
You have just been paid the ultimate compliment, BBB. All the posts have been about your impending departure from the blogosphere and nary a line about the TIT news that the country is going to be dry for two weekends during peak tourist/party time. And all because Thais cannot be trusted to put their X in the right box after a few Beer Lao.
View all comments by Sidelines
BBB: Enjoyed it, sensed the enthusiasm wearing off this past month or so but overall a great read ! Have fun - but your already doing that !
View all comments by Riodon
well frankly I for one on behalf of all the wimmin you have exploited over the years am glad to see you go as you are part of the malecentric hegemony that has objectified sistahs as sex objects for yr misogynist pleasure for thousands of years preventing us from painting masterpieces and writing symphonies and building bridges thru yr program of repression and sexual doctrination and the disappearance of yr so-called "blog" is a VICTORY for wimmin and sistahs everywhere as we deal with the real issues facing our oppressed sistahs such as rape and stuff like that which YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR and the liberation of our sistahs on the streets who only need education and a pair of crocs and some dreadlocks to FREE THEMSELVES from the penis tyranny that has kept us as SLAVES since the dawn of time when (NOTE FROM 3B - this post curtailed to reduce my internet carbon footprint)
View all comments by JulieX
BBB, thanks for the fun. Before you go, what (or who) exactly constitutes a Big Mango set? Are there other sets you can recommend for my 'to do' list?
Cheers.
View all comments by tripper
Thanks for all the tips and stories BBB,, Good luck and keep bonking
View all comments by Adzadel
First John Galt and now triple B, there are no certainties in life anymore. I enjoyed reading your blog, it made me feel like I was back in Thailand. Good luck with your book and don't let the wimmin and sistahs put you down.
View all comments by hanuman
"I've never taught an English class in my life" … I'm actually not surprised i was wrong, your english is far too good for most bangkok english teachers i've met. My incorrect assumption was because you made the trek back to the UK during a school holiday at a time of year no one in their right mind would visit England. I thought you must be teaching more than Issan girls how not to gag.
And Tsongpa is wrong, writing doesnt have to be a miserable experience. It's how i make my living, it's how I manage to survive in this country (or anywhere else). I forget how many people i've met in bangkok bars who tell me they're writers, i usually say i'm a plummer. I got a feeling you'll be the exception to the rule and actually write a book! Put my email address on your mailing list and let me know when it comes out. I'm looking forward to being rocked.
View all comments by twerp
@bbb.it has been a lot of fun to read this site and to contribute ,and in some small way helps those to stay connected to thailand but by reading juliex rant run as fast as you can old boy and take the good times with you hope to read your book one day and if i bump into you i will shout you a lot of beer. !cheers!
View all comments by eloelo
You can take the man out of Bangkok but you cant take Bangkok out of the man. All the best, BBB, you will be missed. Chock Dii!
View all comments by KTBanker
@tripped: The "Mango set" refers to the service girls who used to work in the sadly-missed Big Mango Bar. I generally tried not to shag them when I was a patron there, in case there were any jealousy issues. Since the bar closed, I've been working my way around them. All good fun.
@hanuman: Such illustrious company. Ouch. Seriously, thanks.
@twerp: Pure coincidence. What's a plummer?
@everyone else:
Thanks for the kind words. The site will remain as-is for the foreseeable future, and I'll still be allowing comments until the numbers dry up.
The site was always a hobby, and as such, needed to be fun. Recently, it's become something of a chore.
To answer a few questions and scurrilous rumours:
* No, I haven't acquired a girlfriend, nor have I fallen in love.
* No, I haven't turned gay, or developed a love for ladyboys.
* No, I'm not leaving Bangkok.
* No, nobody's asked me to close the site.
* No, I'm not selling the website (nobody's ever made me an offer!)
It's something I'd been considering for a while, and I simply don't have time for a full-time job, the Bangkok nightlife, this website and writing a book. Something had to give. Rest assured, my lifestyle will not change one jot. I just won't be providing regular reports on it any more.
At least for now. Never say never…
Cheers!
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
Everything eventually comes to an end but it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for the effort.
View all comments by Wombat
Gotta agree with Riodon, towards the end the updates/content started to tail off, and i had a feeling it would end soon.
But thats inevitable, theres only so many gogos and beer bars etc to write about without becoming monotanous/repetitive.
I think you have turned gay, so maybe we'll be seeing some suriwong updates some time soon? Offers still there……. call me, i have hulk-foul breathe and chronic excma, but at least i have a big wang
View all comments by Penfold
I thought you were running out of steam. Best to quit now while yer ahead.
Back to Stickman then
View all comments by Combover
I figure you'd just panic and flee the jurisdiction after all those hits on "Just looking" from new admirers.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that of course.
N-o-o-o-o sir-e-o, Nope, Unh-uh,
N-o-o-o o way, Jose
View all comments by prufrock
Feck no more site, what excuse will you be able to use for going into the ladyboy bars now?
View all comments by Prickly heat powder
A "plummer" could be one of two things:
a) a creepy teacher-like pedo
or
b) someone who has no friends, is afraid of gettin close to girls, likes ugly girls, and touches guys.
I thought the literary gent in you would know. What you thought I'd admit to putting in toilets?
Plum the depths, not plumb the bogs.
View all comments by twerp
@twerp: Great point. Or it would be, if only they weren't actually spelt the same
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
before i said you didnt get laid enough, now i say you should drink more
a plummer is still a plummer
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plummer
B or no B.
View all comments by twerp
its called creative writing????
View all comments by twerp
It will not be the same without you badboy. Good luck with the book.
View all comments by Smiler
Sad to see you departing the kokosphere at the height of your debauched powers. Your blog has been marked by great insights and humour. I have not noticed any fall in quality or enthusiasm. I hope the book is as good as the blog. Good luck.
View all comments by On Nutter
Once you've finished your book go on a promotional book signing tour through all of the bangkok go-go bars.
View all comments by YankeeHornDawg
damn. I have enjoyed your site so much
View all comments by Martin99z
Winternet of Dis-content
While I have only seldom gustated your frivolously non-merkin angle on what surprises some to be underbellied Bangkok, war(t)s and all, in ever decreasing drain-looping non-syntonic lapses of what ever happens to happen backstage bkk (whatever) it has been a signal politic pleasure to see the spike driven into the rice-girl's aspirations re and vis-a-vis that standard graying Romeo-and-twinkle trope that most stumble over on that first visit (as indelible as a tattoo from the dirt soi out of town) and stands as paradigm for all that is trash and transitory (above and below all else, this stands; that everything falls away, especially in the Siam sphere of what passes for love in a town jinxed by a heat-death no amulet can buy off) as the ur-nature of blogging itself - if nothing else, your uber-sumchai stance has been the Red Bull of what you have come (sin-chronously) to call the kokosphere.
View all comments by dicer
@BBB good luck and well done for keeping this site going for so long. Be Good Bad Boy.
View all comments by Kinnieow
Panties . . . . . . Really!
View all comments by prufrock
*blush*
View all comments by Pants Elk
Enjoyed your site very much, you will be missed, the best webb regarding BK night life, just return from BK and found the prices going up, special Soi 33 with a beer and lady’s drink about 500 baht. The girls are not so good either. One-way to keep the clients away, found Soi Cowboy the best and Nana a drop out zone, I am there for a long time next year working so I hope the prices stay reasonable in some of the bars. Or it’s off for a membership in one of the Thai private clubs. Stay luckily and I will look forward to read the book, what are you calling it, how long will it take you to write?
View all comments by knight
@knight: The book is going to be called "You too can raise your self-esteem by bedding one hundred Thai hookers in a year!", and will take me 53 minutes to write.
View all comments by Bangkok Bad Boy
Can't help but think you have done yourself a mis-service here, dear boy. One hundred hookers in year is less than two a week. It this modesty or are you not such a bad boy afterall?
View all comments by Union Hill
hate to see you go. your site was a welcome substitute for the increasingly dreary and constipated stickman. good luck to you. now what do i read about bkk between visits? thanx.
View all comments by angryirishman
Do you miss it yet?
View all comments by ArtTv