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Two Corkscrews Loose In The Morass: Only One Gets a Hammock
Picture us then, with a wide shot of Danny Rae and yours true stranded in the jungle swamps of Louisiana – in a sweltering bayou hell. Now a close up on me, mired to my knees in sulphurous muck in a cyclorama designed by Edvard Munch, had he vacationed in the tropics more often. If…
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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,…