The excerpt was taken from one of Christopher Moore's many excellent books. It is called "Cold Hit" and one of the main characters is in charge of a web site...Please comment after reading.

Net talk:The Cause, MF, GTF and these farang brough in a whole new line of business. The URL had become a legend in Cyberspace- www.thecause.com- and the site was a powerful communication nerve center for members of the Cause. Members joined by paying a hundred bucks a year, got a password and a user-id, and the unlimited access to advice, comments, information, the basic tricks of where to find girls, hotels, bars-general advice on how things worked, how life was organized, and a one year subscription to their magazine-the ultimate guide to the Phillipines, Cuba, Indonesia, Thailand. Each Country had it's own Causeway.

Cause members landed at Bangkok airport, check into the Dynasty, Nana, Brandy or one of dozens of other Causeway hotels, a base for drinking and playing at the Nana Entertainment Plaza, eating from food vendor carts or one of the hundreds of restaurants on the sois off Sukhumvit Road. They knew before they got off the plance where to get a massage, where the freelancers hung out, the full menu listing of the price of every pleasure. The entire territory that the members traveled half way across the earth to find was only a few kilometers long: Soi 1 through 33, Sukhumvit ROad. The members networked sharing their life experiences, their pleasures, dissapointments, heartaches, often in the form a daily diary post. Most of the communication was about girls: desciptions, photographs in various stages of undress, dimensions, shapes, performances, positions, short time or all night, and the ever important economic factor of cost.

A memeber of the Cause had paid for this stakeout. A couple of decades ago the same guy would have sought magic in a different path; then it was the surfer who wandered the earth's suface in seach of the perfect wave. Well, all of the surfers got old, fat, divorced forced out of jobs at age fifty, so a new magic was invented, a new map for expression and experience which led the seekers to Bangkok, Manila, Angeles, Phnom Penh, Jakarta; a sexual circuit fo adventures in search of the Monster Fuck or the Great Tsunami Fuck. Some used the initials MF; others likes to call the experience GTF. Language was shifting, the landscape of meaning was up for grabs and there was no clear indication who would win the word war or who were the men inventing the new language. The Cause was not actually one thing, one nationality or ethnic group but many different factions seeking shelter in the same Monster Fuck Dream; sex addicts, divorced, separated, widowed men, politically correct drop-outs, vegetarians, ex-cons, soldiers of fortune, homeopaths, psychopaths, warmongers, nerds, drunks, terrorists, scholars, skinheads, bankers, men numbed from years at the front lines of women liberation trench warfare, the obese, the bald, the rejected, bruised, abused, frustrated, dissapointed, and bewlidered in romance, Viagra reborn Jurassics...that was the short list...

Blazers,

Tried to find this book for airplane reading material on my up coming LOS trip. Barnes & Noble could not find anything called "Cold Hit" by Christopher Moore in print. Closest thing was a whodunit titled "Cold Hit" by a female mystery writer. Last name started with FAR ... (should have written that down.) What's up? Need fiction for 23hr airport extravaganza.

McDIJJ

McDijj,

Just wanted to drop a line...I'm not sure many U.S. bookstores carry books by the author Christopher Moore...

The popular bookstore in Bangkok, "Asia Books", a nice selection.

I know it doesn't help on your upcoming trip, but you may consider picking up a few of his novels for future long flights.

Solid808

The only place I could find it in the US is from his website, at www.cgmoore.com

So, I had a friend who was in BKK pick up some of his books, including this one, and bring them back with him.

IMO, it is only a matter of time before someone writes an award-winning book and/or movie about "the hobby". Maybe the book(s) have already been written, but I'm waiting for the movie to cum out. This is just too fascinating a topic to go "undiscovered" for much longer.

What luck! I'll be wakeing up in Bangkok this Saturday morning ... I will have to toady down to "Asia Books" and pick up a copy. (3 days to go guys...the wait is killing me)

McDIJJ