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Image consciousness
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 20/03/2016
» Two weekends, two exhibitions, many weighty issues: Bangkok art lovers are about to see something profound.
Creating Elton John
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 22/11/2015
» Elton John didn’t exist, so it was necessary to create him. One of the world’s least likely superstars, he started with bad hair and dweeby glasses and evolved into a rotund middle-aged man who wrote soundtracks to Disney films. Now he’s a happily married father of two surrogate-born children.
The boys are back in town
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/05/2015
» Well, he said it was jetlag, but that was clearly a joke. After all, they were five young men in a pop band who had been let loose in Bangkok while on their first major tour. The year was 1994, and Boyzone were still teenagers.
Expats who made an impact
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 15/03/2015
» The best bits of Americans in Thailand are up the back. And starting there isn’t as dumb as it sounds: There will be people out there picking it up at Asia Books or Kinokuniya and giving it a flick, looking for familiar names in the index. Choose a name, turn to a page, and you will find an interesting story told well. Chances are you will continue reading, and you will probably be intrigued enough to turn back to the previous chapter, and the one before that, to figure out what came before.
CSI: Hogwarts
Life, Michael Ruffles, Published on 22/07/2013
» The Boy Who Lived stands over the charred corpse, the lightning scar on his forehead and the police badge on his hip glistening in the Miami sun. The medical examiner, a curly-haired Muggle, explains how an accelerant was used to burn the murder victim. "Well," Harry Potter says, pausing to don his sunglasses in the seconds before the CSI theme music starts. "You should always expecto petroleum."
Don't stop 'til you get enough
Life, Michael Ruffles, Published on 26/08/2013
» Choose life. Choose Facebook. Choose your own senators to misrepresent you. Choose not to choose life but choose something else instead. Choose opium.