equal rights/legalise it

Over at Jahworks, an interview with Julius Powell of JFLAG (Jamaicans for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays) entitled Insights on the Chi Chi Man Craze and Jamaican Gender Relations. It’s very good on the homophobia in Jamaica, but in my humble opinion it’s a little weak on the music side of things.

pay it all back

William Burroughs tells a good story about Hassan I Sabbah, the old man of the mountains, the head of the Assassins/Hashishin. The Assassins were infamous for not engaging in all out warfare with their enemies, but employing stealth and infiltration instead. So when Alamout, the Assassins’ mountaintop HQ (situated in what is now the north …

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