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A Martini for Santini: Commemorating Ernest Borgnine

By Guttersnipe on July 26, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

Part of me dies under my overalls I close my eyes and a woman calls From a nightmare… Shave…shit…a shower and a shoeshine That’s it…sack time Everybody looks like Ernest Borgnine. He’s there, unexpectedly, in John Cooper Clarke’s punk poem ‘Thirty Six Hours“, blaring through the speakers as […]

Good Books for Bad Days

By Guttersnipe on October 27, 2011 • ( 2 Comments )

By its very nature, a Romance is suffused with positive attitude. The characters learn who they are, what kind of lives they want, and then proceed to go out and get them. The end result is effort rewarded (which is frankly more interesting than virtue rewarded, because virtuousness […]