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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…
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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,…
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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…