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Two Gods

03/07/202130/08/2021 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Re July 1st with mention of one event taking place previously:

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About the Cat I Found Today

26/06/202021/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Neighbour knocked on front door earlier, thought I was M. Offer to go get M, but no, want message relayed. They aren’t social distancing from door, which I already have Continue reading →

The Great Rock n Roll Little White Lie

17/05/202020/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / 1 Comment

The story of how I found out one of the U.K.’s greatest recording studio’s best kept secrets; something any music tourist would probably prefer not know. Continue reading →

What We Feed Cats & Why It’s Far from Purrfect

18/04/202017/11/2022 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

There’s something wrong with what we feed our cats. It isn’t secretly added or hidden from the ingredients. It’s right there on the label staring us in the face, but apparently we never see it.

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Animal Crackers

12/04/202015/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

In 2019 while visiting an animal sanctuary in the UK, I found myself faced with hypocrisy of monumental proportions. Continue reading →

Google Chrome: a Security Warning

03/04/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Here’s a little something you might like to know about Google Chrome. Continue reading →

Covid-19 and What it Means for Zombies in Popular Culture

22/03/202030/09/2021 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Covid-19 will mark a momentous turning point in zombie films/TV and, for that matter, anything of a post-Apocalyptic nature. Continue reading →

A Terrible Christmas Birthday Tale

15/02/202015/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Circumstance took me back to the UK just before Christmas; a landmark birthday on it had me stay to spend it with mother, who lives in Chard; a place located in deep and darkest Somerset.

By choice celebrations would start with friends on Christmas Eve; a visit to the pub with a massive Continue reading →

UK/Canada Differences: 11 – 20

09/02/202015/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Hello! Following on from 1 – 10 welcome to the next scintillating batch of the biggest differences between the UK and Canada. Continue reading →

Britain Beers Back!

23/01/202015/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

It was recently reported by the BBC that pub numbers in the UK have risen for the first time in a decade. It’s surely no coincidence that a) it was ten years ago that I left; b) I spent twelve weeks there in 2019 – double any other year since leaving.

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Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank the Lord for liquor loving hot chicks. Though nothing compares to how it’ll feel catching up with Her.

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck greedy at marrow. With every gun pointing my way, Hell, not even He’s gonna get me outta this one.

Recent Posts: N. P. Ryan

Sock Drawer

Sock Drawer

My sock drawer Isn’t so important As I think Soon won’t matter What will happen— emptied forever or refilled in the name of another— I don’t know Except to be certain The day will come When my sock drawer is opened In permanent absence of me And whoever has done so Will express something or […]

Rites of Hadda / Hermeticus live @ Café Kino, Bristol: plus Inevitable Machete album review

Rites of Hadda / Hermeticus live @ Café Kino, Bristol: plus Inevitable Machete album review

I first caught Rites of Hadda at the Easton Punk Festival, 2024. During the set singer Wasperella jumped into the crowd to embrace members of the audience; in the process, I was lucky enough to be recipient of a juicy

vengacats: bosscat – an electro punk cat’s whiskers

vengacats: bosscat – an electro punk cat’s whiskers

vengacats’ bosscat makes for compelling listening across its six tracks. Always punk, the album can be Strawberry Switchblade poppy to having a dark sinister, yet playful, edge similar to that of the legendary

BELZEBONG: The End Is High EP Incoming

BELZEBONG: The End Is High EP Incoming

The 20th February, 2026, will see the release of BELZEBONG’s The End Is High EP; in the meantime track ‘420 Horseman’ is available for a listen and to download for pre-orders.

Poem #637

Poem #637

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