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The Joint is Jumping

William Seward Burroughs 1914 – 1997

I have recently been chest deep in the letters of Mr W S Burroughs, garnered from a 14 year period. Mainly to Ginsberg,* but some to Kerouac et al. I see many passages in his letters that have subsequently appeared in his works. Thus my [...]

It all began just before Xmas…

It all began just before Xmas, 1998; 

[What complete and utter bollox. Typical cliché].

In point of fact, IT all began on the eighteenth day of the ninth month of the one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-first year of our Lord. Nope, hang on. It probably all started nine months or so prior to that. [...]

A Missive to Spiney…

RAND HOBART RUSSELL COURT BLOOMSBURY LONDON, WC1H 0LW 0171-837- / 0966- rand.h@******.net

YoHoHo & A bottle of Aprés Rasage? Large Kouros & Coke for me please!!

Spiney Norman Esq. St Anne’s-on-Sea? Lytham St Anne’s Lancashire FY-Summink or t’other.

7th December 1998 Bonjour! Spiney,

(Non. Non. Non). Hola! Spiney,

(No. Spanish? [...]

MELT

It was my 37th birthday on Friday the 18th September 1998. I’d had a quiet weekend so far. But tonite that changed. 

I arrived at Tony’s at about 11pm. Lenny wasn’t coming to Melt with us so we would get a cab about midnight. As usual we chatted and laughed and had a [...]

Brass Eye: Drugs

Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries which aired on Channel 4 in 1997 and was re-run in 2001.

The series was created by Chris Morris, and written by, amongst others, Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker. It was conceived as a sequel to Morris’s [...]

Buzzdays…

Friday. Buzzday. That alarm clock has dragged me from my dreamy slumber. Some alien boy was shafting me while I shagged his sister, there’s no accounting for taste, you either have or you don’t. GLR are advising me of the traffic and weather, but not together. Could be 20 past, 20 to or just [...]