Why Would I Write

Author: goodnewsgeorge

  • Starker (this post contains a lot of Wikipedia links)

    Remember that bar, Overtime? The beer which served this overpriced, German-branded, beer called ‘Starker’?
    I recently discovered that it wasn’t so German after all.

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  • Life Tax

    Sometimes life hits you hard.
    Then you take the blow like Dorothy Gale.
    And fly away.
    End up somewhere magical.
    Or plummet to the ground.
    RIP in peace old wheels and savings.
    It’s time to rebuild.

  • Shit them all festival, laugh at the beautiful

    I have this vague memory of a playground experience which I’ll never forget. I was a kid then, under 10 years old. And I was just hanging out at the playground in my neighborhood with my sister. It’s something we used to enjoy doing in the evenings – after the sun wasn’t so hot and before the it set. We would have fun running around, playing on the swings and slides, working up a sweat before we headed back home for dinner.
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