‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ (L. P Hartley: The Go-Between) A generation that walked to school every day and we walked back home just as easily. We were a generation that did our homework by ourselves, eager to finish and rush outside […]
Stacy has opened my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading it with the other people in the commune for all the cocaine and ecstasy we want. In the meantime, we’ll pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so that Stacy can get better. She sure deserves it!
MAKE READING COMPASSIONATE AGAIN My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If I repeat the same thing a thousand times when we talk, don’t interrupt to say: […]
5. Dublin’s Temple Bar district is renowned for its vibrant nightlife, with numerous pubs, restaurants, and cultural venues.
‘We enjoyed a celebrity status.’ His verse captures the soul of Liverpool as it was before the city was transformed. 3,000 copies of A Sea Veneer of Merseyside and Believing of Liverpool were sold out in weeks.
A SHILLING FROM HIS PAY . When poppy seeds and sweetheart’s tears, Are falling till the May; Then who’ll replace the young men, Who have fallen in the fray? Will young men’s eyes be passion filled? Bright lit by lies absurd, Oh, what’s a young man left to […]
All I Ask is a Tall Ship is a unique and soul-yearning evocation of this great romantic era. As you dreamily turn the pages of this almost spiritual pilgrimage you will breathe the aromas and taste the briny of a vast place on earth that remains enigmatically indifferent from its terrestrial counterpart.
FREE PRESS: Sean’s Bar, located in Athlone, Ireland, holds the distinction of being the oldest pub in Ireland, with a history dating back over 1,000 years. According to historical records and archaeological evidence, the establishment was originally built in the 10th century, and situated along the ancient route […]
Back in 1800, Thomas Cochrane, the guy who inspired Jack Aubrey from Master and Commander, got his first command: a little sloop called the Speedy. It had 14 four-pounder guns and a crew of about 80 men. Mostly, Cochrane did convoy duty, but he also got a few […]
FREE PRESS Residents of a town in South Carolina have been warned to avoid potentially dangerous infected (by scientists) monkeys after 40 animals made a daring escape from a nearby research facility. The monkeys somehow made it out of the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, about […]
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