Not Fake News. Urban LegendsThis is The Master at the top of his game, 29 years old, and just having escaped the degeneracy of Los Angeles for …. the degeneracy of Berlin.
This is also a man who knew better than any of his generation of musicians how to manipulate the truth, so who knows how accurate that scenario is.
Due to popular demand [ cough ], I’ve been thinking on the pros and cons of living in Vietnam.
Below are the details, bearing in mind that, as a traveller, I’m a Young Player, so only have NZ, and Thailand, to compare.
cons;
– advertising
– bikes
– heat
– RHR + aircon
pros
– coffee + food
– beach
– cheap
– bike
“Good things take time,” says the old TV ad – but I’m unsure whether it applies to books as much as cheese or wine.
Rumours from the Pit has been (self-)published by Xlibris.com.
For me, it’s the end of a saga which began nearly 25 years ago. Here’s how.
I’d landed – again – back in my hometown Whangarei. After licking my wounds for a while, I began to look around for something productive to do.
Meantime, my old friend Carl Wyant was talking ( via letter ) about putting together a collection of his newspaper columns for publication.
Around that time, I got my first PC, having used them since the early 1990s in two previous jobs as Joe The Reporter.
And for want of anything better to do, Carl or I – I can’t remember which – nominated me to transcribe his best columns to digital format.
There followed three months or so of slugging away on the PC, in between a storm of letters. These were typed and posted, just like the 1970s. I use the word storm because a fair few of them bordered on … irascible.
abos
cycling
heat
dairy
accommodation