Trink: The Nite Owl
Mar 26, 2014, 2:36 am
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Trink: The Nite Owl
After he got fired from the BKK Post he had a website/blog for awhile. Haven't heard anything about him since. Anyone know if he's still blogging? If so, where can he be found. I used to look forward to Friday's BKK Post and turned to him column first.
Mar 26, 2014, 2:11 pm
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Well, I didn't know he'd been fired from the Bangkok Post! Do you know anything more (that you can post on the forum that is, otherwise feel free to pm me)? I noticed that in recent years his column no longer appeared in the paper - which in my opinion has seriously gone downhill recently. When I was there in 2012 I bought the paper every day for a week but there was nothing that you could say was anything like his old column.
Mar 26, 2014, 3:03 pm
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Well, I didn't know he'd been fired from the Bangkok Post! Do you know anything more (that you can post on the forum that is, otherwise feel free to pm me)? I noticed that in recent years his column no longer appeared in the paper - which in my opinion has seriously gone downhill recently. When I was there in 2012 I bought the paper every day for a week but there was nothing that you could say was anything like his old column.
Mar 29, 2014, 1:01 am
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Evidently Trink has retired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Trink
OP might take a look at http://stickmanbangkok.com/ which is sorta like what Trink used to cover. Look through the site for the stickman weekly column section. If risque topics bother you stay away.
OP might take a look at http://stickmanbangkok.com/ which is sorta like what Trink used to cover. Look through the site for the stickman weekly column section. If risque topics bother you stay away.
Mar 29, 2014, 3:58 am
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Stickman has a fairly interesting interview with Trink from 2004:
http://www.stickmanweekly.com/Weekly/weekly170.html
http://www.stickmanweekly.com/Weekly/weekly171.html
As of 2010, he's apparently still writing book reviews for the Post, but seems to have given up the nightlife scene for good:
http://www.stickmanweekly.com/Stickm...ok-Legends.htm
http://www.stickmanweekly.com/Weekly/weekly170.html
http://www.stickmanweekly.com/Weekly/weekly171.html
As of 2010, he's apparently still writing book reviews for the Post, but seems to have given up the nightlife scene for good:
http://www.stickmanweekly.com/Stickm...ok-Legends.htm
Mar 29, 2014, 7:13 pm
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He's been gone from the Post for a long time, but a lot of his old articles are archived from 1996. Don't have the URL but saw it on oocities, I believe. They probably decided his material wasn't politically correct enough at the Post, but then again there's a lot in BKK even now that's not exactly considered PC.