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The Gold Painted Buddha and the Mooncakes

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 15, 2022May 15, 2022

Ramblin’ Jack: Digging Those 912 Greens

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsDecember 23, 2021March 16, 2022

Beat Till Tender(loin)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 27, 2021January 21, 2022

Mr and Mr Bukowski

Musings by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 23, 2021March 19, 2022

Fishing Hooks and Head Stocks

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 19, 2021October 29, 2021
San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 16, 2021May 20, 2021

From My Window #5. The Whimpering

Sometimes things happen outside which would identify where I am, I suppose. The noises and the wailing, the boop boop of the cop cars, the sounds of something or someone hurting to the point that human or animal it doesn’t matter. Humanity from animal reality is barely distinguishable: pain is pain all the same, and […]

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The Walkers on the Tender Side: From My Window #4

San Francisco Days by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 14, 2021November 2, 2021

From My Window (#2)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 13, 2021November 2, 2021

From My Window (1)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 11, 2021November 2, 2021

Chris Whitley: Americana Empathica

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 9, 2021December 23, 2021

The City’s Table

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 17, 2021November 2, 2021

The Polk(a)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 5, 2021May 15, 2022
Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 1, 2021June 5, 2021

4AD: Bills and Aches and Blues!

New music rarely gets me hopping up and down in excitement. I am old. On the older end of the Generation X’ers. I am in the morass of stolid middle age where I prefer to live in past glories. I occasionally listen to new rap and hip hop. It is the only new musical genre […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 7, 2021May 10, 2021

Marriage is Murder

I refuse to make apologies, I refuse to be reasonable, I refuse to put caveats before anything I might write on this subject. Marriage is murder. The relationship between men and women is so unequal physically, socially, legally, that to endeavour to merge worlds, to enter into such a contract is just begging for trouble. […]

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Zen and the Artful Beauty of the Independent Bookstore

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 5, 2021June 5, 2021

The Man Who Fought Life

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 28, 2021June 5, 2021

A Couple Of Days Off

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

Ghosts of North Beach (Part 3)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 18, 2022May 18, 2022

Writers, Retreat?

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 18, 2022May 18, 2022

Ditching The Novel

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 17, 2022May 17, 2022

Ghosts of North Beach: Part 2

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 17, 2022May 17, 2022

The Ghosts of North Beach (Part 1)

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 17, 2022May 17, 2022

Things to do in Tokyo When You Are Trapped: Eating in Nice Restaurants With Holey Socks

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 17, 2022May 18, 2022

All Dreams Go To Die In L.A.

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 16, 2022May 17, 2022

Gambling With The Future

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 16, 2022May 16, 2022

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