Category Archives: Thoughts from the expats corner
Jack Corbett has now been living full time in Thailand as an expat. This category encompasses a wide range of thoughts and subjects from the perspective of being in a strange land thousands of miles from the United States where the culture oftentimes seems to be 180 degrees apart from the values and beliefs of the West.
It is about time for American Cuban rapprochement and Obama was just the right man to do it, with the help of Raol Castro. As for me, I’m going to Cuba, if not this year, next year or the year after. Be sure of that. I’m excited to see the American Cuban rapprochement develop.
Obama and Raol Castro shaking hands on the upcoming
You should get just as excited as I am. Cuba is right on our doorstep,
93 miles to be exact. Yet for 50 years it’s been official American policy to consider Cuba to be an outlaw nation. But we’ve had that all wrong just as we had it all wrong in Vietnam. Where over 60,000 American soldiers died as Americans killed over 1,000,000 Vietnamese. As their Christian duty to save the world from the Communist scourge. But what a difference forty years can make. Communist, Capitalistic, or whatever we choose to call Vietnam today, it is rapidly been emerging as a prime trading partner of the U.S. and staunch political ally in Asia.
The main problem with American Cuban rapprochement is back in 1959 the United States chose the wrong side.
When it ignored Fidel Castro’s pleas for American assistance while he was consolidating his Revolution in Cuba. The U.S. ignored Casto’s pleas for assistance so Fidel had only one choice. Which was to turn to the Soviet Union. Had we stood with Fidel, the entire course of Cuban-American relations would have taken a different course over the past 50 years.
There would have been no Cuban Missile crisis, no bay of Pigs–Cuba would never have been listed as a pariah nation.
Instead, Cuba would have become one of the prime tourist destinations for Americans seeking beautiful scenery and pristine beaches right on our doorstep. The Cuban economy would have prospered while the whole course of American–Latin American relations would have turned out so much better for all concerned.
The same thing happened in Vietnam. When Ho Chi Minh turned to the United States for the support of a country he deeply admired.
And just as we did with Castro, we turned our back on Ho. So he turned to the Soviet Union instead.
Once again, the result was a complete travesty of injustice with devastating results for both Vietnam and the United States. Vietnam is still Communist, at least on paper, but now it’s one of the good guys. So if you go to Vietnam now, the Vietnamese will consider you to be one of the good guys too. After all, I’ve traveled to Vietnam four times. Where I found the Vietnamese to be some of the most helpful friendly people in Asia.
But leave it to Obama to take the lead in the U.S. to get those doors open again. I expected no less from the man. Vietnam has finally become one of the good guys. I expect in a few years Cuba will become one of our most steadfast trading partners. Just as I believe Americans will finally recognize Obama as one of America’s greatest presidents. It just takes a little time for History to sort these things out.
To continue reading more about the recent American Cuban rapprochement you might want to read the following from Wikipedia
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The benefits for your going to alphapro.com are huge.
There’s hundreds of pages of content at alphapro.com including all content in this blog. That’s because this blog is within the alphapro.com domain.
I’ve been working on the alphapro.com web site for over 20 years. Much of its content is adult related.
I used to get paid by Xtreme Magazine and other adult magazines but when I could not find a viable adult magazine covering the Midwest Clubs I decided to start my own. I created The Looking Glass Magazine as part of my alphapro.com web site. The search box for this forum will not work for all that Looking Glass Magazine content.
After buying a condo in Thailand and moving here full time the content of the Looking Glass took on an Asian Thailand focus as I no longer was visiting the American strip clubs.
Most of the adult and Thailand content in the Looking Glass is not part of this blog. The last articles in the Looking Glass were in December 2013. From that date on this blog replaced the Looking Glass Magazine.
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Okay. I’m going to put one of the pictures right here for a sneak preview.
You won’t find these pictures in this Pattaya Expats Forum. Or anywhere else either. I might be prejudiced but I think the Spew Wrestling venture that Big Daddy and Big Mike created were the finest nude wrestling spectacles of all time.
3. Go to alphapro.com again and type into the search box Big Daddy. Not only was Big Daddy the founder of Spew wrestling. He’s a lifelong friend of mine and only a couple of weeks ago we were sitting together at ringside at the Pattaya Max Muay Thai stadium as I was shooting video of the fights there. Big Daddy is truly significant to me, not just because he’s a very dear fiend of mine but also because he brought me to Thailand. Notice among many of the Big Daddy results the Double Knockout article and you tube video that appears in this blog
4. Once again go to alphapro.com and type into the search box Krabi. In my opinion the Krabi area has the most beautiful beaches in Thailand and the world. You will find a lot of my Krabi articles and pictures this way.
Alpha Productions is still here after 20 years
Nearly all the adult sites and strip clubs in the old days are gone. Those were great days back then. And Alpha Productions is no longer doing the adult stuff now that I’ve moved to Thailand. But I’m still using professional cameras to create the best photography and video I can. Most of the strippers and feature entertainers I worked with in the old days are gone too. Most are doing other things with their lives. Many have died. The strip club owners and top managers who were my friends have turned to other pursuits. For example, Frank, who was the GM of the Platinum Club and owner of Club 64 is now selling furniture (Frank will be successful whatever he does). Big Daddy is focusing on mcing or doing voice overs for Professional Wresting.
Yes. I shot a lot of the American girls nude. But I always tried to do my artistic best. The girl in the picture worked at Club 64. Frank who had been the absolute best manager I ever knew at Platinum Club and his wife had me shoot more than half a dozen of their girls. Frank’s wife (who had been assistant manager at Platinum) would work on a girl’s hair with a couple of the other girls, her outfit, makeup, etc for up to 2 hours in order to present the girl at her best. Getting to work with Frank and Sherry made me a much better photographer while enabling me to become much more adept in photo editing. This husband wife team were the most professional strip club managers I’ve ever encountered. I owe a lot to them.
I never shot porn by the way.
My goal has always been to be an artist. I’ve always tried to present the adult entertainers I knew as beautiful women inside and out.
Aspen Reign Magician in Pursuit of Excellence
I think my strength as a photographer (if I have any) is as an action photographer. When Aspen Reign took center stage to perform her shows she was an absolute dynamo. I would often shoot up to 1500 pictures in a single night at the feature entertainer showcases I covered. All the other feature entertainers would stop whatever they were doing to watch Aspen when it came time for her to perform her show. She was the maestro of all maestros
Aspen was absolutely wonderful.
One morning while I was staying at a hotel in Peoria, Illinois shooting a Pure Talent Agency Showcase, I went into Big Als early to have a cup of coffee. A new girl looked a lot like Aspen. During the evening performances this new entertainer kept trying to emulate Aspen’s style. Even her hair style. So here I am drinking my cup of coffee at Big Al’s and there’s a woman sitting at the bar without much makeup on. I think it’s the new girl. After we exchange a few remarks, the girl says to me:
“It’s me. Aspen.”
We talk a bit more, and then Aspen tells me:
“I have been watching you when you are shooting all the other feature entertainers. ”
“Why are you watching me?” I reply.
“Because I want to see which entertainers interest you the most. So I watch to see which feature entertainers you shoot the most of.”
That made my day. Here was the biggest superstar of them all taking a professional interest in my photography.
Front cover of Xtreme Magazine showcasing my Aspen Reign article, Aspen Reign Magician in Pursuit of Excellence
I wrote a lot of magazine articles about them.
As far as shooting their naked bodies? Yes. I did a lot of that. Hopefully I have captured the beauty of the female form in my endeavors. And I got paid for doing it. Here in Thailand I never shoot nude pictures of Thai women. In the U.S. my photography and magazine articles helped the adult entertainers in their careers by increasing their marketability and earnings.
The number one reason why the Best search engine is the google custom search engine on the main Alpha Productions web site
This is the Best search engine to use because it fuses all of the content in the Looking Glass online magazine with this blog and all that great adult content I used to do back in the United States.
The Jack Corbett Asia Travelogue is a completely objective compellation of the writer’s travels in Asia. Since there’s no monetization involved, you will be getting the truth.
The reasons for integrating the Looking Glass Magazine with the Jack Corbett Pattaya Expats blog are:
I wanted to replace it with the Pattaya Expats blog
My focus had completely changed from the American adult entertainment industry to becoming a Thailand Expat.
But there’s a lot of Asian travel content in the Looking Glass Magazine. I took hundreds of pictures of my Asian travels. Most of them are in the Looking Glass. And I spent a lot of time writing travel articles in the Looking Glass.
There are over 50 issues of the Looking Glass Magazine. The Jack Corbett Funhouse blog is the Looking Glass Magazine’s replacement. But there’s still one more reason for integrating the Looking Glass with the Jack Corbett Fun House blog. Although I no longer have much interest in American strip clubs, many issues of the Looking Glass were all about American strippers, topless clubs, and major adult entertainment events I participated in as a professional photographer and writer. For those who would like to enjoy all that adult content of the Looking Glass and my alphapro.com web site, this travel section of the Funhouse blog is perhaps the bridge that many of you have been waiting for.
Thailand section Jack Corbett Asia Travelogue
Krabi is my favorite beach destination in Thailand
