Love and Loss in Cambodia: A Memoir
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"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
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That is how I remember you looking, and on a white Vespa...
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Vespa went in 2010 to be replaced by pedal power, got tired of the cops pulling me over and even more tired of tilting the fucking the thing to start it and double tired of taking it to the mechanics every other week. One of the best moves I ever made that and getting a dog. Both changed my life within a year.
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I had one too. Those boys out by the stadium that fixed them opened a money changers and wouldn't service Vespas suddenly one day. Fucked if I could fix it. Yes mine needed to be constantly revved while stopped at a light in order to keep from going dead. I was happy to be rid of mine too when I left. Well worth the $200 bucks I paid Johnny Flash for it though...horace wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:37 pmVespa went in 2010 to be replaced by pedal power, got tired of the cops pulling me over and even more tired of tilting the fucking the thing to start it and double tired of taking it to the mechanics every other week. One of the best moves I ever made that and getting a dog. Both changed my life within a year.
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Johnny Flash ,another name to remember in lights, was one of the first people I met in PP at the walkabout when the walkabout was only half or even a quarter of its final size. After the fall of the Talban he was one of the first if not the first tourist into back Afghanistan. Another soul who went t to sleep too early.
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Lol, yep. That was easy to figure out. RIP HS. What a generous soul. So many gone way too soon. You are very familiar. Were you at Ken's service in December 2016?
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Unfortunately and most apologisingly not as a few months before his death I had alreadly left Cambodia on my round the world bike, beer n bird tour.GCramerHarman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:07 amLol, yep. That was easy to figure out. RIP HE. What a generous soul. So many gone way too soon. You are very familiar. Were you at Ken's service in December 2016?
Love n live life.
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Horace Johnny Flash's father came over to Cambodia a few days after he died. I didn't know the family as John and I were only friends in Cambodia (though both American). But they needed someone to take them around to the embassy and to try to find out where John banked and get his money out, and to generally tie up loose ends (he had already been cremated by then), and no one else would do it so I did. I was 29. It was the worst few days of my life. John was his only son. He was in tears the whole time. I was never straight with them on how he died, and they thought he was killed in a robbery. I talked to one of his sisters a year or so ago and unburdened my soul to her about how John actually died, because I couldn't bear knowing without his family knowing. I was too immature at the time to know what to do. I actually called my own father at the time and asked him if he would want to know the truth if it were me and he said no. But I personally went to the morgue alone myself at the back of Calmette and saw his body in a freezer the day after he died. I saw it with my own eyes. I took his dad (his dad also brought a friend along for comfort) around to John's favorite spots. We went to Snow's across the river and played on the house speakers a CD that John had recently recorded. We ate at the French restaurant that Ranariddh owned by the old Pencil Supermarket on 214 (is that still there?) and had foie gras until they ran out. I will never forget the experience we had one of the days with these two old American men who were white-collar and lawyers and lived in Marin County and weren't prepared for what Cambodia had to offer at the time. We went to The Alley Cat for dinner, because John had played his guitar there the night before he died. Mark and Dallas were running it. We went in and people were drunk and stupid but others it was unremarkable. Drunk Scottish Con was there at the bar and was starting to be belligerent. Anyone remember him? Anyway, we actually went back the next night for dinner again to the same bar because they liked it and Con was STILL THERE AT THE BAR 24 hours later and was in a right state. He had not left, drinking all through the night and the next day. He hadn't moved but he was violent, even with my new friends. Dallas will remember the night well. When they realized Con had been there the whole time, they had a different view of the country and its expat community after that. I could see the looks on their faces. Then the two guys who were responsible for John's death - who left him there to die so they didn't get in trouble- showed up to pay their respects unwittingly, totally high as kites. Both American men commented on their condition, and weren't made aware of their role in John's death. The whole thing was horrible.
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Jeez, what a horrific time for you.backhome wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:58 amHorace Johnny Flash's father came over to Cambodia a few days after he died. I didn't know the family as John and I were only friends in Cambodia (though both American). But they needed someone to take them around to the embassy and to try to find out where John banked and get his money out, and to generally tie up loose ends (he had already been cremated by then), and no one else would do it so I did. I was 29. It was the worst few days of my life. John was his only son. He was in tears the whole time. I was never straight with them on how he died, and they thought he was killed in a robbery. I talked to one of his sisters a year or so ago and unburdened my soul to her about how John actually died, because I couldn't bear knowing without his family knowing. I was too immature at the time to know what to do. I actually called my own father at the time and asked him if he would want to know the truth if it were me and he said no. But I personally went to the morgue alone myself at the back of Calmette and saw his body in a freezer the day after he died. I saw it with my own eyes. I took his dad (his dad also brought a friend along for comfort) around to John's favorite spots. We went to Snow's across the river and played on the house speakers a CD that John had recently recorded. We ate at the French restaurant that Ranariddh owned by the old Pencil Supermarket on 214 (is that still there?) and had foie gras until they ran out. I will never forget the experience we had one of the days with these two old American men who were white-collar and lawyers and lived in Marin County and weren't prepared for what Cambodia had to offer at the time. We went to The Alley Cat for dinner, because John had played his guitar there the night before he died. Mark and Dallas were running it. We went in and people were drunk and stupid but others it was unremarkable. Drunk Scottish Con was there at the bar and was starting to be belligerent. Anyone remember him? Anyway, we actually went back the next night for dinner again to the same bar because they liked it and Con was STILL THERE AT THE BAR 24 hours later and was in a right state. He had not left, drinking all through the night and the next day. He hadn't moved but he was violent, even with my new friends. Dallas will remember the night well. When they realized Con had been there the whole time, they had a different view of the country and its expat community after that. I could see the looks on their faces. Then the two guys who were responsible for John's death - who left him there to die so they didn't get in trouble- showed up to pay their respects unwittingly, totally high as kites. Both American men commented on their condition, and weren't made aware of their role in John's death. The whole thing was horrible.
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backhome wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:58 am
Drunk Scottish Con was there at the bar and was starting to be belligerent. Anyone remember him? Anyway, we actually went back the next night for dinner again to the same bar because they liked it and Con was STILL THERE AT THE BAR 24 hours later and was in a right state.
Con is living up country in Kampong Bumfu.k somewhere, still kind of with Danni.
I ran into him sometime within the past year at LoneStar. He has been off the booze for a few years now.
One of the best binge drinkers out there in his day, and there was a lot of stiff competition!
Note to self: Must be nice to morons.
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