Poet, photographer, and total Scotsman; Ian has been mentioned before in this organ.
Now a full-time resident in Pattaya, he continues to write terrible poems and take interesting photos, and he wanted a way to share them with the world. Being somewhat behind the times (he was still using Netscape Navigator as a web browser), his method of communication with his many admirers was to fire off a series of emails with massive attachments. What he really needed was a blog (and to get rid of Netscape).
So with much wringing of hands, we went down to Tuk Com where I failed miserably in pointing him towards a Macbook Air and instead he came away with a Samsung something boring laptop. Then it was home to set up a Wordpress account. We needed a name for the site and he had no shortage of ideas:
“Great Scot” “Stuff You Need to Know” “Beach Tales” “Guid Stuff” “Life as I Know It” “It Doesn’t Get Better Than This” “Wha’s Like Us” “Shit poetry central”
(The last one was my suggestion).
But he kept returning to his first choice, “Pattaya Daze”, and I must admit it has a certain ring to it. And so it came to be, and you can visit it here.
There are no poems yet, but as a taster you can enjoy one of his finer creations, set to music by his groupies:
Bob Dylan, eat you heart out.
In addition, frequenter commenter and inspiration for this site, Billy, has a new creation. He admits it’s a shameless rip-off of Thailand’s Not The Nation, and if you don’t live in Jakarta and play golf and pool, then you probably won’t understand it. But give it a go here.