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Apr 27, 2009

Playboy's Paradise Lost


Hey, who da thunk it?

That the infamous Playboy Magazine publishes investigative reports? WTH?

Well, they do apparently sending one writer to the CNMI, stayed at the PIC and immersed with the hotel's clubmates.

Paradise Lost. That's the title of the five-online page article. The article zeroes in how clubmates more than assist hotel guests and "F-around." According to the news today, the hotel manager denied the majority of the content of the story. "All made up characters."

As I read through, I noticed that the writer hid the actual people behind nicknames. I know one of them whom he named "Jim" that decided to work to teach soccer to the Marianas kids....

Another tourism piece for the CNMI?

The writer, a white guy, used to be a common face on the island. I didn't know that he's an award winning writer. He also wrote one notable book that talked about labor practices in the US that included the CNMI. A friend of mine met him a long time ago. He also had an Asian wife or a girlfriend. However, I heard they had a falling out at that time. Oh my, 'been watching too much "Gossip Girl" ;-)

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where do I go to apply for a job at P.I.C.?

Anonymous said...

No scandal here. Sex rules. Clubmates fuck like rabbits. End of story.

Anonymous said...

John Bowe is the writer.

There have been a lot of ClubMates that decided to live on Saipan after their "contracts" were over. Perterka, Troy Williams and many others. Some succeeded, most didn't and are literally trapped out here. The ones in their early 40s are either broke or fucking anything that moves to get a place to sleep for a week or so. How was that piece of ass Angelo?

Anonymous said...

you make that sound like a bad thing

SteeleOnSaipan said...

"The ones in their early 40s are either broke or fucking anything that moves to get a place to sleep for a week or so."

Wow, that line had more fiction than the Saipan section in John Bowe's last book.

Anonymous said...

That's right Steele - weren't you a ClubMate years ago?

puffy the clubmate slayer said...

somebody sounds like they've been turned down or missed a few hugs as a child.

Anonymous said...

The guy Joe, his real name is Nick and he's just a big of loser and Mack and Fish. Those guys all got fired for being tools. I worked side by side with these guys. There are a lot of single women at PIC but these guys definitly didn't take them home. They played warcraft and watched asian porno. This article is a joke and so are those three guys.

Anonymous said...

The Guy "Joe", his name is NICK SWAIN. He coaches soccer in Saipan now. The creep might actually be coaching your children. If you know him, thank him for tainting Saipan and PIC.

Anonymous said...

Thank John Bowe.

As with his book, a classic case of psychological projection.

Anonymous said...

Actually you are all wrong. I am one of the "fictional characters" from the article. The story was originally written for Rolling Stone Magazine and the decided not to use it, So John sold it to playboy where they put their own twist on it. "Joe" is not Nick Swaim.... "Joe" is his real name and lives in Cali. The only person fired was Fish and that was because of a drinking problem. The rest of us left at the end of our contract. So gossip girls there is the truth from the horses mouth...

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