The big buzz in Bangkok this week, at least among expats, is the demise of the popular Stickmanbangkok.com website following a feud between web personalities.
For those of you who have never enjoyed the guilty pleasure of perusing Stickman, his website comprised a compendium of turgidly written tips on living in Thailand and how to get work as an English teacher and a weekly column detailing the goings-on at various 'naughty nightlife' venues. But, best of all, there is a 'Readers' Submissions' section - which was the site's lifeblood - in which writers of varying abilities shared the ecstasies and travails of life in the Land of Smiles.
Reading many of these pieces was like watching so many train wrecks, as writers poured out details of their emotional eviscerations and financial fleecings at the hands of Thailand's gimlet-eyed ladies of the night.
Stickman, otherwise known as Paul Owen, is an English teacher from New Zealand who works at a Bangkok college. In his Stickman guise, he also conducts 'bar-girl investigations'. His nemesis is Keith Summers, an American living in Thailand's north, whose online persona is John Galt - or The Great Galt.
Mr Summers recently launched a website, NotStickmanBangkok.com, devoted exclusively to debunking and decrying almost everything Stickman presented.
He took aim at Stickman's editorial endorsement, or otherwise, of various nightlife venues, and regularly questioned the legality of Stickman's bar-girl investigations.