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As the aftershocks hit Tokyo from the Big One, I put on REM and laughed to myself. OK, so it wasn’t a big brave belly laugh, more a freaked out high pitched giggle, but I grabbed the kids hands and danced the around the shaking living room and we laughed and danced and sung. Pig […]
MoreThere is a lot of empty housing in San Francisco – there is plenty of vacant stock, but rental prices are holding firm and have risen slightly, despite the exodus from the city. I understand that the buy to let scam has encouraged hugely inflated prices, and minimum rentals as dictated by mortgage companies at […]
MoreBy all accounts Townes Van Zandt was a difficult person when he was drinking, which was much of the damn time. The trouble with living a solitary life cut off from the rest of society, no friends close by, no roots or links is that the people you read and you listen to become your […]
MoreDear Son, On the day that you were born you made everything alright. I had temporarily managed to get away from your father. He had beaten me up so badly when I was a few months pregnant with you, and I decided to run with your sister and take the consequences. So we ran. I […]
MoreI survived torture which left permanent injuries on my body and soul. I survived attempts on my life by my husband over years. I survived years of rapes. I survived loss. I survived an abusive adoptive family. I survived five years of living on the road and in campsites and forests. I survived heroin. I […]
MoreHunter S Thompson once said that he hoped he would be the only journo ever to do Gonzo. When he said this, Gonzo was barely defined – the usage predates the Muppet Gonzo, and was used first to describe a piece Hunter had written on the Kentucky Derby called The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and […]
MoreIn my evening phone call to the outer-limits, dialing into disaster somewhere on the road with my favorite death-partier and sometime partner in destruction, I got accused. I was accused, fairly or not, of pretending that I was better than him. That I was a fake, pretending that I’m not the trash that I clearly […]
MoreSpare a thought for the foreign imported female servants of Singapore. Don’t be fooled by the use of the word ‘helper’ to describe their role. In a 2017 survey of 799 domestic female workers in Singapore, by the independent consultancy Research Across Borders, it was found that at least sixty percent of these foreign domestic […]
MoreI flick through addiction blogs, sometimes there is someone I can give a word of encouragement to, sometimes someone writes something that happens to strike a chord with me. I flick past most of the adverts for various programs and assertations that all you need is various representatives from their religions. Sometimes there are ill […]
MoreHumans are short lived creatures. Tortoises live for a few hundred years. If they had the urge to, they could rule the world, but they don’t appear to have the interest. The longest lived trees live for thousands of years. Our puny three score and ten barely allow us to scratch the surface of life. […]
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