Bling, Bling, When, Cultures, Collide

I have been saving this for when I am busy, but this is a classic from American Journalism Review from 2002:

Daryl Gale's whole body shook with convulsions of laughter as he pulled out a letter he'd been given by the manager of Saint Jack's, a small, dark bar that we newsroom rats like for its $5 hamburger special.

With his booming voice, senior writer Gale entertained City Paper's weekly news staff meeting June 19 with the message of the missive and the story behind its writing. The letter was a complaint written the day before to bar manager Sherry Levin about an ad in my newspaper.

It certainly was not the first advertising complaint City Paper had ever received, considering that we once printed an ad for a bar depicting the Virgin Mary with udders. But this complaint was different. It was from an unhappy representative of a foreign government.

BP: Interesting at the end in the current context.

This is Thai-related if you read what the person was unhappy about.