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Frank ‘Rat’ Ratliff and a life spent at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi 13 Ghosts Kissing Something handy Updates to the site Photo: our front hall, at dawn. Video: Video-mapping Prague’s astrological tower clock Video: Caligula, …
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To be read in the voice of Morgan Freeman.
Hey.
Down in Mississippi, on Highway 61, in the heart of the old cotton belt, is a little place they call …
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The house slouches on an innocuous suburban corner in the township of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Garden centre Christmas trees, rope lights, chainlink fence, barbed wire and weatherbeaten stone lions …
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I’m halfway through prepping my article on Graceland Too, when April emails me this link.
From that room we visited his backyard, an homage to “Jailhouse Rock,” complete with a homemade electric chair.
To get visitors’ attention, MacLeod …
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The night before visitng Memphis, we sat for twenty minutes in the parking lot of a Sonic in Oxford, Mississippi. Thick humidity. I had the window down. In the greenery and from …
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So we left Trisha and Seamus’… … got back on the road (that’s my Mokeskine lower right, btw. Pretty much everything’s written down in that)…
… and followed the trail of Godfear …
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(Rufus took this one.)
So we got into Cleveland two nights ago, a little after dark. The plane was a Continental Airlines puddlejumper. Haven’t been on an aircraft that small since the last time I …
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Apparently it’s only 32C, according to the thermometer atop the Watchtower building by Brooklyn Bridge, but it feels like 45. Watersellers are EVERYWHERE.
Met Howard. Went in knowing it wouldn’t be anything like what I expected and wasn’t disappointed. Very …
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After vacillating for way too long I finally got the tattoo done. It’s a design I’ve had in mind for years, which I never had the skill to realise myself. I always knew it had to be done in the style …
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Spent an hour getting out to Brooklyn, realised that at some point – thanks to keeping twenty dates in my head and two timezone changes – I arranged to meet Howard Morhaim, my agent, tomorrow, not today, and he was out. …
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