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Unfinished Madness and Other Walks of Life
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Stories of a Father's Son, A Mother's Boy and a Cocaine Kid turned Tanqueray Man.
- Added on: Sep 26th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Ben Birnam
- Listed in: Personal Non-Fiction
- Tags: relationships fiction alcoholism non-fiction faction memior
Recent Posts
Family Guy
Family Christmas Party. Washington St. 12/12/2009.I had a fascinating time with more of my relatives than I think I've been under one roof with before, discounting 1970s funerals. Perhaps appropriately, those disco days in...
A Snow Blind Samurai (Tracking Hell through Aramingo on the Road to Oblivion)
1989. Summer.My mind is screaming but my body is quiet, stomach churning. And my brain is baking. Parked and conspicuous on the side street of a neighborhood decimated by poverty, drugs and crime, menacing shadows seem to surround me as they pass by...
Mallorca Memories
It wasn't familiar at first, I was still half asleep. The sound rose up from the living room, the unwatched television on some random channel I'd forgotten to switch off when I went to bed last night. Then it hit me and the song registered. And I d...
Shoulda been gone! Bad Songs and Better/Bitter Memories
I've never owned a Steve Perry album and his voice is just this side of Geddy Lee fingernails-on-the-blackboard spine-twisting agony. But he's also the soundtrack to the 1980s to me, probably much more than the songs and artists that I actually lik...
I Flinched and the Chain Reacted
I lived my childhood tweeting on a ledge between sanity and madness. Sometime I drifted back from the brink but there were times I went the other way too. I fell hard into the abyss in the summer of 1975 and in a very real way have been attempting t...
Oh, Magoo! You\'ve done it again!
His name was Hal Lambert. Hal-o-wishes. A charter member of my Dad's drinking entourage, he was forever decked out in his pork pie hat and dapper threads, a gentleman in the 1950's sense of the word. Kind of sophisticated for Dad's crowd. Sophisti...
