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The man, according to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office, allegedly engaged in sexual conduct with minors in South America. He was arrested on Thanksgiving morning.

(SE Asia, early 2010s) For hundreds of years, mankind has been rushing towards a future that shall be allegedly brighter. Restlessly, with a roar of the Kraken that awakens the grizzlies from their winter sleep it awaits the time which shall be the right one. In haste it replants its…

(deep fringes, early 2010s) Some years ago, when I spotted it, my unvoiced wish was to finish up the book. Here, in the countryside, you can still see them. The nights here are dark. I’ve just caught a glimpse of one. It’s just that the book gave way to good…

Almaty – Astana (Kazakhstan, late 2010s) En route, enjoying what is, you happen to recall your other journeyings: it’s mostly moments that stick in your memory somehow, the good old days right here, right now. For a moment you feel how you don’t grow old, you only grow more human,…

GLORIFIED IN THE LAND OF BABYLON ACT II. VI. ⸻ The marriage of Verochka and Charley was solemnized on October 12, 1888, at the Register Officer in

Record Store Day (aka RSD) returns on Saturday, April 23, and, as per tradition, enough titles of quality and distinction will hit the bins to nullify the chronic complaints about this retail booster shot (non-essential major-label reissues clog the pressing plants, egregiously delaying indie-label jobs; obnoxious flippers scoop the most coveted releases without even listening to them only to sell them at over-inflated prices; gimmicky vinyl picture discs ahoy!; yadda yadda). Because I always tr...

Grip now or gripe later.

US citizen and substitute teacher Paul Bodner was sentenced in the US District Court on March 31 in the northern district of California to 11 years in federal prison on three counts of Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct and one count of Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places, for sexual abuse committed against Vietnamese boys in HCM City.