Cannes flyer for Deadly Addiction (later retitled Rock House), a Jack Vacek film I worked on as assistant director and production designer.

  The Roommate (1987) (later included in Future Shock - 1993) DEG - This was a short film starring Bill Paxton. In the opening scene, I'm in a sequence that foreshadows the main story. I play the nerd who is pushed up against a wall by a bully.
  Buck James (1987) ABC Television - I'm in a bunch of episodes as one of a group of interns who follows Dennis Weaver around. It was filmed on a fantastic hospital set on a giant soundstage on the MGM backlot. This would have been a great steady gig, but the show was canceled. I don't know if there were even enough episodes made for it to get into syndication.
  Strange Voices (1987) NBC Movie of the Week - I'm the student who sits behind Nancy McKeon in class.
  Deadly Addiction (1988) Vacek Productions - I'm the screaming parking attendant.

Reverse of the Cannes flyer for Deadly Addiction.

Those are the films (that I can recall) where I can be seen most. Some of the others that I pass through are the short subjects Asleep at the Wheel and Hold, the feature film Split Decisions, and the TV movies Crash Course and Natica Jackson (1987) with Michelle Pfeiffer.

    3.    In the early 1990's, I was executive editor of two magazines, Today's English and English as an International Language.

    October 12, 1998 - I accept an award on behalf of my boss.
    Left to Right: Deputy Prime Minister Pichai Rattakul, Police Lieutenant General Wichian Potphosri, Ron Morris

What is your Bacon number?
    According to the the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, I have a Bacon number of 3.

    Ron Morris was in Deadly Addiction (1988) with Greg Cummins
    Greg Cummins was in B.O.R.N. (1988) with Clint Howard
    Clint Howard was in My Dog Skip (2000) with Kevin Bacon

    If I go through The Roommate, my Oracle number would be 2, but I don't have onscreen credit for that film so it does not count.

    Ron Morris was in The Roommate (1987) with Bill Paxton
    Bill Paxton was in Apollo 13 (1995) with Kevin Bacon

  What are your most dubious claims to fame?
    I was in the studio audience of the first episode of Married... with Children. I shook hands with Jimmy Carter. I sat next to Ray Charles in a shoe store.

Have you ever witnessed anything unusual?
    Earthquakes--several big ones in LA

    Coup--1991 coup in Thailand--I'll never forget overhearing someone say, "oh well, no more democracy," as they went about their shopping.

    Riots--1987 Halloween on Hollywood Blvd., 1992 Rodney King riots in LA, and 1992 Bangkok democracy protests (a month later)

    Gang war--a turf war was fought on my street briefly in 1988 in LA- a few times I saw kids walking down the middle of the street firing guns

    Out-of-control bus--In July 1999, I was in Las Vegas with some Thais. I had to do some laundry, so I had our tour bus driver drop off the Thais at a casino so he could take me to a Laundromat. The driver was a Chinese illegal alien who was a compulsive gambler, barely spoke English and was employed as a driver by one of the biggest tour agencies in town. While I washed clothes, the driver played slots in a coffee shop. When I was finished, I started walking across the parking lot to the bus. It seemed as I got closer, the bus was slowly receding until I realized it was slowly rolling down the gentle incline in the parking lot toward a crowded intersection. I tried to get the door open, but it was locked. I then ran to get the bus driver. We then ran across the parking lot toward the bus that was picking up speed and spectacularly missing parked cars as it sped up. We got to the bus and ran alongside. The driver couldn't find his keys--he found them--then he couldn't find the one that opened the door--he dropped the keys--at this point we could barely keep up with the bus--I got the keys--we jumped on the running board--I tossed the keys to the driver--he opened the door--we were about to jump the curb of the parking lot and careen into cars stopped at a red light--the driver put on the emergency brake... The bus stopped safe and sound.

    Plane in trouble--In August 1995, I was on a Biman (Bangladeshi) Airlines flight from Bangkok to Singapore, but we never made it. The plane dropped and we turned around and headed back to Bangkok, engines wheezing and wings dipping violently from side to side. It seemed like we were just clearing the buildings below as we raced by at incredible speeds. We made it back safely. It wouldn't have been so bad had not our first indication there was trouble had been the flight attendants running to their seats shrieking in terror and buckling themselves in! They never said a word of explanation to the passengers...

    My room is searched

    And a lot more to be told after I die!

My old desk:

My new work area:

My Websites

Have any of your sites ever been reviewed in the media?
    See this page.

What do you like to put on the web?
    anything I think people may not know or have seen

What is your motivation in making a website about Bangkok's transportation and infrastructure? (This is in reference to my 2bangkok.com website.)
    1. I like to see big things being built! ( My father is an architect and I've been around construction all my life.)
    2. I've always marveled at the extensive construction in town. If you haven't been here, it's hard to realize what a metropolis it has become.
    3. It's fun to show things from Thailand that people may not have seen before.
    4. I want to promote Thailand, but don't want to create a typical website with info on temples and tourist attractions.

How come you don't use Active Server Pages or better graphics, etc.?
    Thai websites are typically slow-loading monsters. I could make a "stylish" website with lots of graphical elements, but I prefer to preserve precious bandwidth (and my readers' time) for relevant text and photos.

What does "City Rain" mean?
    It is the title of a poem I wrote. I like the sound of those words together (and practically every other .com address is already registered).

How are you related to Esther Kem Thomas (the poet featured here)?
    She was my maternal grandmother.