Trink did retire
- January 6, 2004
Despite the deadly quiet from the Bangkok Post over
the end of the Night Owl column (they were similarly quiet
when the Insider
column was canned after making fun of the Paragon
project), the Asian edition of Time magazine
reports Trink is gone and even gets a quote from the normally
tight-lipped Bangkok Post editors:
RETIRED.
BERNARD TRINK, 72, revered and reviled newspaperman
whose "Night Owl" column extolled for nearly four
decades the sybaritic pleasures available to expatriate
men in Thailand's capital; in Bangkok. The Brooklyn-born
Trink covered the city's go-go bars, massage parlors and
pubs, making the rounds with his Thai wife in tow, owl medallion
around his neck and maroon polyester pants hitched up to
his chest. He wrote in a retro style in which prostitutes
were "demimondaines," and press releases were
preceded by the phrase, "The tom toms have it ..."
His signature sign-off was, "But I don't give a hoot."
The column was one of the most popular on the Bangkok Post's
website—on average, 30,000 readers logged on to digest
it every week—but the Post has decided to drop it.
Said editor Veera Prateepchaikul: "Do you want something
that's modern, or something from 30-40 years ago?"
Trink did retire
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