SPIRITS

sometimes all the colours seem to work right

spirits

Thai people are big believers in ghosts, fortune telling and other paranormal occurrences.
There is a nightly television show where people claiming to have had other worldly encounters are interviewed by a panel consisting of believers and sceptics.
The producers have sent investigators out to study the locales where these events have
purportedly occurred and neighbours and family are questioned.

I am not a believer in spirits. However, that said, having watched several Thai comedy shows
I am becoming convinced that there might be some credence to the idea.

I think the spirits of Martha Rae, Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, the Marx brothers, Laurel and
Hardy, Wylie Coyote & the Roadrunner, Gracie Allen and certainly the Three Stooges
have migrated into a group of comedy performers here in Thailand.
(That way they didn't have to learn the language on their own ~ very crafty)

Slapstick and all kinds of shenanigans are alive and well on these shows.
Everything is colour; the thought seems to be that if a little colour is good a whole lot of colour is better. The wardrobes are outrageous, the hairstyles flamboyant, midgets are thrown about like toy dolls and there's always a fat person getting or giving a shellacking, either verbal or physical. The audiences are always cracking up, hooting and convulsing with laughter. I don't understand the words but can't help but laugh at the antics. As I watch these shows I see the spirits of all the old comedy stars
that I used to watch on TV in the old days back when. It's got to be them.

roadside barbeque

entrance to a temple ~ Noni on her way to put in a good word for us

temple detail

two beautiful faces