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  • Innocent Abroad

    (part two) ******* An excerpt from The simpletone Chronicles *********  “We’d been in the USA for five years when my mother came across two choice grams of black Afghani hash I was hiding along with a lovely little pipe that had great sentimental value. So rather than turn me in to the Cleveland constabulary, my…

    SDW

    May 25, 2023
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    david bowie, glastonbury, john lennon, ottawa
  • Innocent Abroad

    (Part One) ****An excerpt from The simpletones Chronicles****      Four fresh sleeves of Newcastle Brown Ale are seated atop coasters advertising Molson Golden. The year is 1984 and The simpletones are celebrating another terrific session in their usual venue, The Preston Street Lounge, a subterranean cell they share on alternate days with Experimental Farm,…

    SDW

    May 25, 2023
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    bob marley, bowie, experimental farm, glastonbury, ottawa, royal oak
  • Brünnhilde: Böökmönger

    It’s a rare privilege to live near an independent bookstore and I cherish mine. I shop there even if the book costs thirty cents more than the big box store a four dollar bus ride away.  Yesterday, I had just stopped in to snag a copy of the Rational Purview, a quarterly devoted to rather…

    SDW

    May 23, 2023
    whimsy
    bookstore, Minnie, puccini, Wagner
  • Classic Rock & Turkey Talk Live on the 174

    I don’t mean to cast aspersions on the driver’s ability to tolerate alcohol or meth or whatever awakens in some folks that suicidal drive to direct an empty bus into a ditch but I do want to whine for a second about the system controller’s inability to channel the oftentimes sloppy impulses inspired by an…

    SDW

    May 23, 2023
    whimsy
    Enjoying traffic, Grateful Dead, ontario, ottawa, wild turkeys
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