cultural snow

Monday, June 21, 2010

Chai yo

At CNNGo.com, my musings on Bangkok’s less poncy wine establishments.
Posted by Tim F at 7:23 am
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: drink, Thailand, unabashed self-promotion

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

what am I like?

My photo
Tim F
Author of books about Radiohead, Leonard Cohen and The Noughties, plus odds and sods for The Guardian, Mojo, Time Out, Prospect, BBC, CNN and more. Done some telly and radio, too. You can reach me at timfootman (AT) gmail.com or follow me on BlueSky, Instagram or academia.edu.
View my complete profile

what did I just say?

  • ►  2024 (59)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2023 (69)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2022 (66)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (9)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2021 (81)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (8)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (9)
    • ►  July (10)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (7)
    • ►  April (9)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (8)
  • ►  2020 (90)
    • ►  December (10)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (6)
    • ►  August (11)
    • ►  July (9)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2019 (103)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (12)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (12)
    • ►  March (10)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2018 (104)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (9)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (9)
    • ►  April (10)
    • ►  March (12)
    • ►  February (11)
    • ►  January (10)
  • ►  2017 (57)
    • ►  December (14)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (12)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2016 (10)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2015 (17)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (3)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2014 (72)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (7)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2013 (96)
    • ►  December (8)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (9)
    • ►  July (11)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (9)
    • ►  April (7)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (10)
  • ►  2012 (131)
    • ►  December (10)
    • ►  November (11)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (11)
    • ►  August (12)
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (11)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (10)
    • ►  February (12)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2011 (165)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  November (12)
    • ►  October (12)
    • ►  September (14)
    • ►  August (13)
    • ►  July (12)
    • ►  June (18)
    • ►  May (13)
    • ►  April (15)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (10)
    • ►  January (15)
  • ▼  2010 (144)
    • ►  December (14)
    • ►  November (15)
    • ►  October (15)
    • ►  September (12)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (17)
    • ▼  June (16)
      • Twart
      • Absent friends
      • Windfalls and tinned sardines
      • I wanna be loved
      • Capitalist piglet
      • Chai yo
      • Bonfire of the inanities
      • Who ate all the fans?
      • Problem solved
      • I don’t know much about art but...
      • Play your cards right
      • I was adored once too
      • Whatever happened to Matt Belgrano?
      • The Blogular Post-It
      • Chalk of the town
      • Que dividir!
    • ►  May (13)
    • ►  April (10)
    • ►  March (11)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2009 (182)
    • ►  December (15)
    • ►  November (15)
    • ►  October (18)
    • ►  September (18)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (10)
    • ►  June (14)
    • ►  May (12)
    • ►  April (15)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (21)
  • ►  2008 (206)
    • ►  December (18)
    • ►  November (17)
    • ►  October (18)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (19)
    • ►  May (19)
    • ►  April (17)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (13)
    • ►  January (14)
  • ►  2007 (195)
    • ►  December (18)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (21)
    • ►  September (20)
    • ►  August (18)
    • ►  July (18)
    • ►  June (15)
    • ►  May (14)
    • ►  April (12)
    • ►  March (16)
    • ►  February (14)
    • ►  January (15)
  • ►  2006 (237)
    • ►  December (15)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (16)
    • ►  September (18)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (14)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (12)
    • ►  April (26)
    • ►  March (31)
    • ►  February (40)
    • ►  January (27)
  • ►  2005 (22)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (17)

what's it all about?

books music politics art blogging film words TV journalism education media criticism death interweb writing unabashed self-promotion Thailand Twitter Comment is Free nostalgia reality technology culture stupidity religion food Baudrillard history radio canon celebrity USA sex poetry Radiohead class postmodernism race theatre censorship crime gender life money advertising Japan UK work lists age royalty Asia memes Dr Who YouTube branding publishing social media China fashion knowledge theory BBC Barthes Christmas Murakami Situationism punk reading travel Facebook London comedy obituary slebs Eliot absence football language PC cartoons photography law magazines marketing sport covid-19 creative sweariness indie names plagiarism quiz shows Beatles Brexit Wikipedia cricket protest simulacrum decade design fame graffiti France Olympics drink sexuality Trump metafiction old media racism Borges Magritte drugs health Coupland animals feminism pedant questionable taste childhood dreams footnotes nudity philosophy transport 9/11 Big Brother Nazis Paul Morley a bit drunk coup editing future science Ballard Bret Easton Ellis McLuhan Morrissey Perec anti-semitism geopolitics trivia Dada Leonard Cohen Russia Smiths Surrealism Turkey boredom illness science fiction Duchamp authenticity environment futurology posthumanism

what are the scores on the doors?

what’s on the other side?

  • Hyperallergic
    The Return Is a Shabby CliffsNotes Version of the Odyssey
    10 hours ago
  • Unpopular
    Unpopular Advent 2024 – Day 22
    21 hours ago
  • Your Heart Out
    Coincidentally ... Or Not (Part Two)
    2 days ago
  • Steve... almost as nice a name as 'Paul' was.
    Brillo Alameda For Water District #8
    2 days ago
  • Expat@Large
    Question
    6 days ago
  • Not One-Off Britishisms
    “Swagger”
    6 days ago
  • The Dusty Bookcase
    Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others)
    6 days ago
  • New Amusements
    Was That The Year That Was? 2024
    1 week ago
  • Simon Reynolds
    Hauntology Parish Newsletter - Christmas Edition: Moon Wiring Club; Dismal 1970s - Stonecirclesampler + Travis Elborough; Sophie Sleigh-Johnson's Code Damp; William Burns's Ghost of An Idea; Mart Avi + Ajukaja
    2 weeks ago
  • Fat Roland
    What is the best music ending in the number 5?
    2 weeks ago
  • Collapse Board
    In Photos: The Saints ’73-’78 + Chimers @ Princess Theatre, Brisbane, 24.11.2024
    3 weeks ago
  • GreilMarcus.net
    David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus
    1 month ago
  • Publicly Sited
    Listening and learning: Reflecting on the Media, Technology and Culture podcast
    2 months ago
  • Inky Fool
    A Riddle for a King
    2 months ago
  • post-ism
    Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
    3 months ago
  • Will Self
    Will Self’s new novel: Elaine
    4 months ago
  • Paul Gorman
    What About Dancing? Three short films about grief at the Garden Cinema on May 14
    7 months ago
  • Apprentice Joe
    Ten New Musicals It’s Impossible Not To Be Excited About
    1 year ago
  • M.A.Peel
    Et in Arcadia ego: Brideshead Revisited, Revisited
    2 years ago
  • Karl Webster
    Cinevillephilia :: An Unquenchable Passion for Infinite Cinema
    3 years ago
  • We Are All Artists
    Mysterious sculptures appear in the Lake District
    3 years ago
  • Don Armstrong
    The Best Thing to Happen to Music Since Jazz
    3 years ago
  • John Self
    Literary family feuds
    4 years ago
  • Adventures in Ink
    Did she put up a fight? On ‘Grease’ (and a bit on 'I May Destroy You')
    4 years ago
  • Robert(a) Swipe
    Mustique...
    4 years ago
  • Rabbitface
    Birthday wishes
    4 years ago
  • Vicus Scurra
    Darwin Award
    4 years ago
  • Diary at the Centre of the Earth
    Some Passing Maniac
    4 years ago
  • Hello, I'm the Doctor
    Doctor Who Series 12 Trailer
    5 years ago
  • Nicholas Pegg
    Bear in mind
    5 years ago
  • Norfolk 'n Good
    A Tibetan Terrier Writes (or sings…)
    5 years ago
  • Nathaniel Tapley
    Quick thoughts on ‘tactical voting’
    5 years ago
  • La Terrasse
    László Krasznahorkai – ‘Satantango’
    5 years ago
  • Tim Worthington
    Box Set: Loungecore
    5 years ago
  • Reach For The Revolver
    Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke – Simon Garfield
    5 years ago
  • Steerforth
    Since Then
    5 years ago
  • AndAnd!And
    Sisters doing it for themselves … two hours of great music, and not a male voice to be heard
    6 years ago
  • Include Me Out
    Album: Stretchmarks - The Stretch m​-​ARKhives
    6 years ago
  • James the Blue Cat
    UK TV Drama Pitch Generator
    6 years ago
  • Amro
    Swallows and Amazons
    6 years ago
  • Your Lens Cap is On
    Dear Instagram, Send Me Romantic Songs
    7 years ago
  • Drawings of Stuff
    2018 Calendar in collaboration HushKit
    7 years ago
  • Namwan
    Nerdy and Proud
    7 years ago
  • Great She Elephant
    I humbly beg you to kindly cut it out
    8 years ago
  • Martin
    Never Met Him, Yet Felt I Knew Him
    10 years ago
Show 10 Show All

good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste

good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste
“The writing itself is no big thing. I mean I like writing. It’s even relaxing for me. But the content is a real zero. Pointless in fact.”
[...]
“So what choice have you got?” she said.
“I don't know. The way I see it, it’s like shoveling snow. You do it because somebody’s got to, not because it's fun.”
“Shoveling snow, huh?” she mused.
“Well, you know, cultural snow,” I said.
—from Dance Dance Dance, by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
© Tim Footman 2005-2024. Header image by Christopher Boffoli. Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.