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Gentrification is something every nice neigborhood has to face at one point. It has nothing to do with Gentlemens or Genetics, but comes from the verb ‘to gentrify’ which means according to our friends at Oxford: 1. rennovate and improve so that it conforms to middle-class taste; 2. make more refined or dignified. We might [...]

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Goddamn! Have you ever felt like a wannabe? A poser? A fraud? Somebody who wants to be something he just isn’t? Well, I feel like that everyday. I claim to be a positive guy and smile a lot to back that claim, but sometimes I just feel like a jealous bitch. A good friend of [...]

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Yesterday night I made love to music. Not like ‘He was going down on me and Marvin Gaye was playing in the background’, but like ‘I really made love to music’! It was nice. I came twice he came last. I rolled some grass. He didn’t giggle. How you ask? How now brown cow I [...]

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Thinking too much, is that something a shrink could help you out with? Are there any pills that make you stop doing that?
When I was younger, around puberty, I thought I was pretty smart. Not because I had good grades in highschool, because to be honest I was doing pretty poorly, but because I was [...]

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In Turkey we have a new cool kick ass law. Well it’s not that new anymore, but it’s still pretty cool. The law states something like, you can’t say anything that insults Turkey, the State, the Flag, Ataturk (the Don of the Turks) or they’ll throw you in jizail! So, Billy Bob what you think [...]

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Her earrings still lay there on the same spot. The dust had already covered parts of it and formed an extra layer on the couch. For him it was evidence of a seldom moment of happiness in his life.
It was a Tuesday night around two weeks ago. That Sunday he had recovered from another meaningless [...]

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Dear Dad,
It’s been a while since our last contact. Weird how time flies and things go their way without even having the feeling we can control it.
The kids are growing up so fast. Michael just started school and it’s weird to be you now: preparing his lunchbox, having breakfast together (he loves his Flapjacks so [...]

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I looked at you from a distance, but you couldn’t tell what I was thinking. Now you think I’m in love with him. Whatever you think is going on isn’t really going on. So you might call this the Matrix, but I don’t know what way to go but take the blue pill.
“Help me father, [...]

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I’m overhearing a stupid conversation between a guy in his fifties and a lady who must be about thirty-five. They make me so sad. And happy again. She wants to get married with the guy but is complaining he hasn’t called in two weeks. So now she’s looking at other candidates. She says: I want [...]

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How scared am I of taking on big things in life? Like making babies or putting my mother in a nursing home. A lot I think. I broke up with my last boyfriend because he bought me The Secret so I could make some serious career choices. How retarded can you be? Not me, but [...]

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