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Haste to the Wedding

Posted on April 19, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

Tommy, guitar player in the best traditional Irish music band on Okinawa, gets married. I went sulkily as I blamed the wedding for not giving me enough time to go sailing. It took me an hour and a half to … Continue reading →

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That’s a Girl’s Thing

Posted on April 19, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

I once lost the keys for a rented Harley Davidson on top of a mountain in Colorado and was thus stranded. I phoned the man I had rented it from whose name was Tiny. ” Hey Neil, look I’m at … Continue reading →

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Things Get Out of Claw

Posted on April 12, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

After four days of web stuff and dinners, I break away on the final evening to seek out my place of venality – a fish market .Not for me the throb of the night club nor the slurp of the … Continue reading →

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Reincarnation

Posted on April 10, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

The conference/exhibition center where I am spending my time at the moment is in Korea and is called Corex. I wonder why? Anyway, it is well sited as just across the road there is a Buddhist temple. Today I wander … Continue reading →

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Guts

Posted on April 8, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

So another city; the thrill of arriving somewhat dulled by the endless journey from the airport to downtown. I go eat but in this place I do not know one word of the language – not even hello. I mimic … Continue reading →

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In the Rank Sweat of an Enseamed Bed

Posted on April 5, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

Did your parents’ bedroom smell? My parents’ bedroom, into which I would wander as a child, always had the  sweaty, foetid odor of the marsh. I think this was because they slept on the same mattress or palliasse, which was stuffed … Continue reading →

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Legs 11

Posted on April 2, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

I have got to know a young woman who makes cups and lots of other stuff with legs sticking out of them. I suggest that she is influenced by Hieronymus Bosch and she goes, “Say what?” Anyway she is lots … Continue reading →

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The Marine Quarterly

Posted on March 30, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

So, the longer I live in Okinawa the smaller is the granularity of my observation. All the most noticeable stuff, I have noticed. The result is that my posts become more personal and lacking in drama. So here is another … Continue reading →

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He Who Pays the Piper

Posted on March 23, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

Incredible though it may seem, people give me money to pay the flute. Japan is a very strange country. Yesterday we played at a shopping mall. Anyway there is something very different  having used bills shoved in your hands to … Continue reading →

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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Posted on March 22, 2014 by spikekalashnikov

Yea,even so. This post is really for me so I will be able to recall the amazing blooms of my Brugmansia trees, so do not feel obliged to read on. I have 3 Brugmansia in my secret garden, two of … Continue reading →

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