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Dust Bowl
Documenting interesting TV I watched in the past couple weeks pertaining to man-made environmental collapse. The above is a compilation of 60 Minute pieces on People preparing for doomsday scenarios but more importantly they focused on the areas of concerns driving the concerns to take so much extreme personal precautions in advance of of the…
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Santa Cruz
I’ve longed to visit the West Coast, not only because I’ve always felt an affinity to some of the major locations that produced so much of what has defined the counter culture movements all over the UK and Europe. While we were in wonderful Oakland visiting a good friend, we decided to all together go…
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Shogun
Its hard to believe just how much time has gone past since my last post. It has been exceptionally busy but just as I imagined things would settle once I move in with partner on May 20th, we immediately started our summer travel. Briefly, we both finished watching FX’s adaptation of James Clavell’s novel, Shogun…
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Calf and Mule
It’s taken me a couple of months to put down this Christmas story on paper. Why? It’s partially to do with the banal cruelty of the story and how it surprised me that due to my lack of experience in writing, I didn’t know how convey the emotions and reflections in a concise blog post.…
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Dreams & Unrest
It’s about 4 AM and I’m awake for a number of reasons. First, simply because I’m sleeping on the two seat dusty crummy sofa, as my mother is visiting and has my bed. Second, the air is still and the room is too hot as the heating pipes in the ceiling of my basement apartment,…
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Tigran
I spent several at Boston Logan waiting to fly home to parents for the holidays. I spent all those hours listening to all of An Ancient Observer and The Call Within by Tigran Hamasyan I was transported from airport drudgery to sublime folkloric splendor. I discovered Tigran first from his Markos and Markos that a…
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Moore Crumb
Growing up in Malaysia, It was impossible to get hold of comics but as my father was in the US in the late 90s, I was able to obtain a random collection, however, most of which just weren’t great. Regardless, I’ve often wanted to read the sort of revolutionary cartoons that emerged throughout the counter…
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Return
I’ve been coming back and forth from this journal over the years since I left London to chronicle my thoughts and memories through uncertain travels. It’s now seven years since I left and about five years in Boston. The isolation during the 2020 pandemic lock-down was harsh and drove me to many dark nights. Much…
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12th of the 12th
How many days, weeks and months has it been? A few days, weeks or months ago, I took pleasure in watching chipmunks, squirrels, cardinals and god knows what other winged creatures feed from the seeds I left them. Now, it’s just me wiping the dust of the surfaces. Laks Arlington, MA
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17th of the 6th
This morning I pulled open the curtains to bird song I saw a rabbit gallop on the narrow paved alley I saw a shadow of a squirrel on the power line Three months in Laks Indrakaran Somerville, MA
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