Monthly Archives: February 2010
I Love Patti Smith
by Ben Kritikos How is it possible that I went 30 years without being obsessed with Patti Smith? This world is insane. Nothing makes sense, and maybe it shouldn’t. People kill each other, and do worse. Poetry is gone from … Continue reading
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Top Five Bad Memories (Part VI)
AFTERWORD Far from enjoying a public confession of my lowest moments and most tender vulnerabilities, I found relating these things slightly embarrassing. Maybe that sounds obvious, but some people enjoy relating these kinds of things. Why share them at all, … Continue reading
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Top Five Bad Memories (Part V)
A Compromising Position You may have gathered from the past four posts that I spent my adolescence struggling with various Powers That Be in one form or another — that is to say, I had a pretty standard adolescence, if … Continue reading
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Top Five Bad Memories (Part IV)
A case of mistaken identity Did you know that police in Middle-Of-Nowhere towns find strangers asking for directions suspicious? No, I’ll bet you didn’t. I didn’t either. “Protect and Serve” my arse. Gary, Melanie and I went to a party … Continue reading
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Top Five Bad Memories (Part III)
Getting caught egging cars At 16 I was not a bad kid but I looked quite threatening. All the boredom of being riddled with hormones, stuck in a suburb, a chronically sensible and sensitive boy, you could read the frustration … Continue reading
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Top Five Bad Memories (Part II)
Operation Desert Storm When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 the television went crazy. As a kid you got the impression that Saddam Hussein was this text-book bad guy from a Superman comic. In retrospect, it wasn’t just the kids … Continue reading
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This Week: Top Five Jazz Saxophone Solos
by Ben Kritikos The saxophone was the first instrument I ever played. I remember my teacher: an overweight, slightly Buddha-shaped man with a penchant for falling asleep with half-eaten doughnuts in his hand. I don’t know why I took up … Continue reading
We Love… Sauerkraut
This post should, for accuracy’s sake, be called “Ben Loves… Sauerkraut”. And how. For those of you unfamiliar with the fermented cabbage goodie, let me explain. Sauerkraut is finely shredded white cabbage, jammed into a jar with salt, and left … Continue reading
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This Week: Top Five Albums For When You Feel The World Is Shit
by Ben Kritikos You know those days when you’re so frustrated with the world, so itchy and restless that you could scrape your own face off with a tennis ball? I have more of these days between the months of … Continue reading
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