Noon in Bangkok

Thai Noon seemed like a witticism when it crossed my mind,

but that was before I discovered the Pensuk Great Western Resort

and Thailand's Cowboy Country

and despite the dramatic and visual implications and parallels;

German Expressionist lighting (crisp, provocative shadows) and

the trials of a sole protagonist against overwhelming odds and

a town that turns its disloyal back on a crucial moral confrontation

that resembled Hollywood witch-hunting, blacklisting and cowardly

back-shooting, moral high ground-hypocrisy; I always thought High Noon, the movie, kind of sucked.

Your photograph is far more arresting than the movie I've just wasted our time thinking at.

So, I guess I'm not even half-witty.