I stopped writing the weekly column more than a year ago genuinely believing that was the end. I moved on to the next chapter of my life, saying goodbye to the thing that each and every week, and by definition my entire life, revolved around. It was the end of the one thing that had been a constant in my life for the best part of 2 decades. Despite efforts to negotiate a deal to secure a future for Stickman Weekly, it wasn’t to be.

Until now.
I was recently in Thailand for a short break to escape the chilly Kiwi winter. 31 / 32 degree daily highs sounded better than 13 / 14. One afternoon I was strolling through the plaza just checking out how it had changed when I spot an old friend. I stop for a chat, one thing leads to another and a few dinners later we are discussing the relaunch of Stickman Weekly.

Stop by the site on Sunday September 2nd for the return of Stickman Weekly. Not occasionally, not monthly, but weekly.
Soon to be your Bangkok commentator again,

Stick

A few months ago I woke up in the early morning hours, hot and sweaty, and unsure of where I was. I was thinking that I had slept through the alarm clock going off, and would miss the 11:00 PM curfew for getting back to camp. It took a few seconds but I quickly realized that there was no mosquito net over the bed and that I was re-living a memory from 1969. In 1969 I was TDY (temporary duty) to a military base in northeastern Thailand and was spending the evenings with my Thai teeruk in a bungalow about a kilometer outside the base. It is apparent that I have been reading too many Stickman submissions when Thailand starts cropping up in my dreams. I got started reading Stickman when I was doing an internet search on R&R and turned up the 2012 submission where the author claimed he had several 2 week long R&Rs in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Well, me and probably several hundred thousand other fellows that took R&R in Bangkok are pissed off because my memory is 5 nights maximum. Since then I have been tempted to tell my own story about R&R, (also telling the story of my later Thailand experiences).