It's a funny thing to hear at near past half your life, 
being told that you are not old enough to play with those of the same age
and receiving advice that perhaps it would better to seek out the younger, more gullible sorts

maybe the old man was right
and being out of time and unable to play the game
it is time to give up and move on

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Broken Bones, Bruised Knuckles, a thousand Cuts and Scrapes,disembodied scottish voices,
the bridge over singapore river,
more strange coloured alcohol, three locations and four scuffles, combined at over 400 pounds
dismay brings a friend,
a black eye, quarts of spilled blood, a epic bag-pipe riff, 11 stitches
being thrown off the bridge over the ( Read more... )

The sincere effort to drown dismay and disquiet in a variety of strange coloured and rather vile tasting liquids was halted by a friendly grip on the shoulder and a muttering of a strange but familiar sound. My name it was i think.

Pleasentaries exchanged, the blurry real figure led back a group of undistinguishable faces that seemed to know that ( Read more... )

The first started innocuously enough, a Thanksgiving dinner at am Americano pub hidden away under reams of garish christmas lights.

Marked mostly by the absence of Turkey, too many blinding flashes and an odd disquietening detachment to events. As dinner passed ended and morphed into a slow causal round of drinks beneath the terraces of Chijems ( Read more... )

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Must confess a certain degree of dissappointment at learning from Tycho and Gabriel (See www.pennyarcade.com) that  I was not quite the innovative wordsmith as imagined. It seems that the concept of the mirthquake is really not something that was so original to warrant a blip on the rictus scale.

but perhaps there is some comfort in (at least to the ( Read more... )

Amidst the dew laden trees, refreshed from the late evening rain and the gentle musing of the night that followed, the wildest of animals suddenly marked his arrival.

The east coast was unprepared for it, approaching quietly confidently, he strode into a boisterous birthday celebration and made it his own.

Maude was here to party. Feasting on ( Read more... )

in a world fast growing more obsessed with pretty things and quick pleasures, the greatest joy still comes from things slowly built ( Read more... )