Monthly Archives: May 2012

Reckless # 3. That’s Me

May 17, 2012 – 10:25 am

I’ve changed to position # 1. It’s a coming of age thing, although it took me three attempts to get the spindle in the right sockets.

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EL TEN ELEVEN by I Like Van Halen

May 16, 2012 – 11:45 am

In 2004 my cousin Sherri called before my planned departure from Bangkok. She was living in LA with her fiance. Michael seemed like a nice man. Anyone was an improvement after her last husband, a speed freak bank robber. “I want you to meet him.” Sherri considered me her closest cousin. We weren’t family, but […]

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Mira Tibblin RIP

May 15, 2012 – 7:36 pm

Paris is a magical city. Parisians boast about the French capitol as ‘La Ville-Lumière’ or City of Lights as much for its illumination as its well-deserved reputation for thought. I was lucky enough to have lived in Paris during the 80s. I learned the language, I ate the food, and I slept with the women. […]

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A Clockwork Orange – 9th Symphony

May 15, 2012 – 5:37 pm
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CLOCKWORK ORANGE 50

May 15, 2012 – 5:33 pm

CLOCKWORK ORANGE turns 50 today. Anthony Burgess had written the book fast. He thought that he was going to die from a brain tumor. The author later described the novel thusly; “a jeu d’esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify […]

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