A short, just over 2 minute long behind the scenes video from an Attitude Thailand magazine shoot, Boy Striker shows off the many physical talents of male model and all around cutey Piya Chanasattu, April’s cover boy.

If you haven’t see The Man of Steel yet and need convincing beyond Henry Cavill, note that the movie is the work of the man who brought us the beefcake in 300, as well as these 22 Wildly Homoerotic Moments In Zack Snyder’s Movies.

9 of Thailand’s Coolest Guinness World Records includes a 400,000 baht pet wedding. Just be glad your boy special wasn’t part of that family.

Since I was a week early with my Father’s Day post, I guess I can bracket the holiday with Rise of the ‘Daddies’: A New (and Sexy) Gay Niche that holds out hope for those of us advancing in age. Kinda, sorta.

Now here’s something you’ll never see in Thailand: they are trying to decide whether to burn, crush, or donate $10 million worth of ivory in the Philippines. Thailand loves it elephants and is big on sticking an elephant on every tacky souvenir possible. Anyone else notice lately that those souvenirs are real elephant tusks?

Hungry In Bangkok, a foodie’s blog of the Big Mango’s restaurant scene, tries Ruen Thai at the Rose Hotel starting off the review with “I will not go into details about the hotel. But what makes Rose famous is their Thai restaurant.” Uh, not really. They give the place a big thumbs up for atmosphere, and loved the old teak house. The food? Not so much. It gets rave reviews on the message boards. But then so does the hotel. I’m beginning to think for some Location, Location, Location has more to do with their gonads than real estate.

Maybe it’s that the well-known scams in Thailand are so familiar – and easily avoidable – that I find them more humorous than a travel hazard. Those is Bali, however, strike me as just plain evil. All the hotel walls topped in barbed wire in Kuta may have something to do with that. Slight of hand during a money exchange seems to be a national pastime. And new scams seem to crop up on every visit I make. Punters love to trash-talk Phuket, but it ain’t got a thing on Bali. I wonder if that both are popular destinations for Aussies has anything to do with it?

The Buddha was big on divesting yourself of all the trappings money can buy and eschewing the pangs within your soul that lead you toward that lifestyle. How you interpret that I guess depends on the level of lifestyles of the rich and famous you’ve grown accustomed to. I mean you wouldn’t expect Beachball to start imaging he stays at 1-star hotels in Bangkok when he is used to imagining he stays in 5-star establishments now would you? But you do expect monks to do a bit better than Louis Vuitton luggage and private planes.

Awwww man! John, aka TOQ, started adding entries to his blog again back in April and I just found out about it. One of you bastards coulda given me a heads up. In any case, his pix of Songkran up-country are a delight as are his posts about everyday life in rural Thailand. As always.

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