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Trax Boy and Now Ain’t Dat a Man!

Our family always tried to achieve middle-class respectability, and never quite got there. The kids at my school had made up their minds. I was the Trax boy; the school kid who wore the cheapest sneakers. Most of the kids’…

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5 Reasons Bob Dylan is a God

This article 5 reasons Bob Dylan is a god from the Tampa Bay Times was a fun read especially the following section: 5. The truth The Dylan I’ve always loved is exactly like the one encountered by a 24-year-old cop in…

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North Brother Mountain

“This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for fun. You’re gonna have fun, and I’m gonna have fun… We’re all gonna have so much f***ing fun we’re gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles!” – Vacation (1983)

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My Wooden Cutting Board

Just after breakfast, I developed this fascination with my wooden cutting board. This is where I prepare nearly all my food.

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The Story Didn’t Die

I have written it with trepidation. It will cause some readers pain. I do not find my candor, its realism greatly reassuring. I apologise to my readers and most of all my family for the harm it may cause. People can go…

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Lost Tribe

No matter what he did, where he went for all the beer he drunk the people he upset for all the stupid things he did, He could at least say to himself in the end: ‘I once had this thing that enabled me to…

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Conservation International (CI) – Nature is Speaking

I was watching CNN International news awaiting the start of the Masters golf on ESPN and up popped the message below about nature. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Just a wonderful and powerful info-message which pertains…

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Few People Know What it’s Like

You give it all day long and it’s a real grind, and don’t get paid diddly, struggling to just to make ends meet, you also try to keep your colleagues level headed, just so they don’t leave us, sometimes they make the cut,…

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The Appointment

I have an appointment with the computer. Every night nearly. It is waiting. My chair. A one man seat.

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A Brutal Four Minutes for Religion

You can find the whole speech here at Dangerous ideas festival in Sydney. Related Articles: 1. What is True? The most provocative yet necessary philosophical debate of our time? 2. Chomsky on Žižek and Peterson’s ‘Logos’ and ‘I act as…

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