Category Archives: Life

Only the Strong Survive

October 25, 2019 – 8:41 pm

Junkies have traditionally been the strongest members of society. Addicts survive the ravages of a drug existence with guile and sleath. Their bodies survive the catastrophic demands of heroin as if they were impervious to death and now an American woman is trying to exterminate this dominant gene group from rebirth by offering junkies $300 […]

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Shit My Dad Said

June 16, 2019 – 9:42 am

A twenty-seven year-old was living with his old man. 73 if not more. His son recorded his father’s salty sayings for fucking Facebook. His adages deserved a better forum. Old man – “If at first you don’t succeed, quit. Because you probably suck.” “Universe is 14 Billion years old. Seems silly to celebrate one year. […]

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2014 For Worse And A Little Better

January 28, 2019 – 7:37 pm

Some of 2014 was the best of years, but after New Year’s Eve the year had rough spots for old Christmas trees and me. Winter came in the first week of January. Wind whistled through the drafty bedroom windows of the Fort Greene Observatory. Snow buried the soccer field in park at the end of […]

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THE SEA OF ICE by Caspar David Friedrich

June 12, 2018 – 7:39 pm

Anthony Bourdain died this week in the small city of Kaysersberg, France. The police said there were no signs of violence, but little else was revealed to the media by the public prosecutor. Most people assumed he had killed himself. I don’t know, but I do know the darkness and little is darker than THE […]

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Drinking Yourself To Death

June 12, 2018 – 1:07 pm

Every week the Pattaya Media highlights another farang leaving this mortal coil from suicide. Favorite methods of self-demise tend to be jumping from a condo, poison, or hanging yourself with a plastic bag around your head, but few people ever comment on the most popular technique ie drinking yourself to the grave, since the process […]

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