Quentin Tarantino – Tom Vater

North Korea or Putting Up Mirrors In The City Of The Blind

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018tomLeave a Comment

So now that the media is gushing over the fact that there are human beings living in North Korea, does this mean that the reclusive terror state we can hardly point to on a map will soon be another impoverished capitalist nation selling kimchi flavored coca cola toxins to its liberated citizens, producing nothing […]

LONELY AT THE TOP – Tom Vater commemorates the death of David Carradine in Bangkok

June 12, 2009April 7, 2010tomLeave a Comment

In The Great Railway Bazaar, published in 1975, best-selling travel writer Paul Theroux described Bangkok as “a hugely preposterous city of temples and brothels”. More than thirty years later, first time visitors to the City of Angels could be forgiven for thinking that Theroux‘s analysis is as valid today as it might have been then, in […]