Jack this is Neal |
...one day Neal came back from his dish-washing job at a local eaterie to find LuAnne nee Henderson scrubbing the front steps of her employee's house in the winter cold without the benefit of gloves. ...
Posted by Chuck on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:18:00 PST |
Groovy Bob |
Nobody caught London's most defining cultural moment, circa 1967, better than Richard Hamilton with his series of prints titled 'Swingeing London'. He called this one 'Release' but it was more like a ...
Posted by Chuck on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:53:00 PST |
Possibility of an Island. |
"Our lives are like a novel we once read." MH. I've been meaning to write something about Michel Houellebecq for some time. Not because I particularly like the bloke (I've read all his books) but ...
Posted by Chuck on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:59:00 PST |
Up Country. |
Arthur turns back the mosquito net and hauls himself out of bed. Tui is still sleeping like a teak log. Should he make a cup of tea? Or get one in town? Perhaps potter down to the fishpond to get th...
Posted by Chuck on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:43:00 PST |
Dangerous Times |
Arthur squeezes himself in a place at the Tuk Lae Dee (Cheap and Good...a popular dining establishment in Bangkok). Not too crowded. Good. To his right a bright-robed West African entrepreneur, to hi...
Posted by Chuck on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:36:00 PST |
Sticky Fingers. 2007. |
Sticky Fingers (reproduced with the kind permission of Dick Headley) Arthur watched his mother's coffin slide slowly through a curtain into the waiting furnace and felt nothing much at all. Outside ...
Posted by Chuck on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:36:00 PST |
Just Like Old Times. 2007 |
Dick Headley, middle-aged, paunchy, tattoo here and there, one gold ear-ring, raises himself slowly from his lounger by the pool at the fabulous Mom Tri's Boathouse on beautiful Phuket Island, stretch...
Posted by Chuck on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:10:00 PST |
Reincarnation |
The funeral went well. It had only been a small ceremony but everybody had a good time. Arthur's mother's ghost put in an appearance of course; a little late which was unusual for her. "Ah, there you...
Posted by Chuck on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:28:00 PST |
The Stream |
When the police showed up in the village looking for her it was just one more thing on top of everything else. It had been a hellish few days and Narm was feeling numb and confused by it all. The t...
Posted by Chuck on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:34:00 PST |
from Losing the Plot ... |
It had been Chuck's idea to hit a few girly bars so James could check them out. Now it's around midnight and James seems tired, or bored, hard to tell. Obviously not a big go-go fan anywa...
Posted by Chuck on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:04:00 PST |
