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Two Gods

July 3, 2021August 30, 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

June 26, 2020September 21, 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

May 17, 2020September 20, 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

April 18, 2020November 17, 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

April 12, 2020September 15, 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

April 3, 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

March 22, 2020September 30, 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

February 15, 2020September 15, 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

February 9, 2020September 15, 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!

January 23, 2020September 15, 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.

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While it’s safe to say Jesus Christ didn’t visit Weston-super-Mare, what about anyone else thought an incarnation of God by followers of a religion? How about that incarnation of God also being someone once given weapons and ammunition by the Nazis with which to fight a war? Or to up the ante more so, the […]

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And what’s more it comes in poetic form! Header image (cropped from original) showing the Rolling Stones on stage by Jim Pietryga, 2015, licensing.

Handsome Devil

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A.k.a. the vain atheist’s prayer. With thanks to Максим Власенко for use of the header image (alt text; a man visible from the waist up, naked, painted red and wearing horns, he looks to the camera unamused).

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Contemplating the origin of teaching in abstract poetic form. With thanks to  Andrea Piacquadio for use of the header image (alt text; a teacher with an open book, looks to the class while pointing at a chalk board). 

Girls Like Us: Bitter ‘Til The Bitter End; a review

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Girls Like Us (GLU) released Bitter ‘Til The Bitter End the same weekend I caught the band live at the Chelsea Inn, Bristol. It was a blistering set, part of another top night there (In With the Inn Crowd), during which I was about to turn to a mate and say, ‘killer bass line’ only […]

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