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May 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 20
The bloke in the photograph (below) with me is Terry, an old style hillbilly from Tennessee. Me and Terry shared a single-wide in a trailer park off the Calfkiller Road in Cookeville, Tennessee during the winter and spring of 1991. I was struggling to get ‘clean’ from narcotics at the time and going to lots […]Archive
March 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 19
I wanted to say a little bit about the French person here on Koh Samui in Thailand. The French person gets about the place with an innate sense of superiority and casts around sneering at the whole human race and exfoliating socialist fumes on everyone. They believe that everyone would be fine if they only […]Archive
March 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 18
It has been a long time since I have written a blog but make no bones about it, I have had plenty to say all along the way. I am in Thailand as I write this. I am taking a break from the pressure of running a small business (approximately fifty or sixty employees) in […]Archive
October 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 17
Me and Kelly leave for Burma tomorrow to put up poetry posters and I am really looking forward to having a good break from mine own self. The mere act of placing poetry in public spaces makes me feel mighty fine and helps me to ignore the drones of this life. I often place these […]Archive
September 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 16
It is a very sad day in New Zealand music as this is the day Peter Gutteridge died. At the end of this week we are going to have an election and to me this is meaningless. The news is dominated by this paltry and underhanded matter and I try not to take too much notice, […]Archive
June 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 15
I have been back from Thailand for about a week now and I thought I should write something about it. I spent a month near a beach in Koh Samui and it was certainly good to exit New Zealand during the political season. Thailand, like the rest of the world these days, is an officially […]Archive
April 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 14
Yesterday morning at 6:30am I arrived to walk Mt Eden Hill in Auckland City. It was dark and misty and there was dew on the ground. These are ideal circumstances for me as Auckland can get mighty hot and I miss the cool and damp mornings of Christchurch and Dunedin. In the car park there […]Archive
April 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 13
I’ve been back in New Zealand now from New Jersey for about six weeks. The Air New Zealand flight out of San Francisco was cancelled and in the end I had to take a plane out of Los Angeles. This process meant that I had to call Air New Zealand six times over the course […]Archive
April 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 12
Well I am packing up my little apartment in Princeton, New Jersey to ready for the flight home to New Zealand. I am heartbroken and I am breaking out in occasional tears. Today I took my photos and pictures down from the wall: Thomas Pynchon in the navy, Jack Ruby doing the business with his […]Archive
March 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 11
It’s been a bit of a sad week for one reason or another but probably the main thing is I have begun to pack up my wee apartment in New Jersey and I’m getting ready for the trip ‘home’ to New Zealand. I really love America and as I drive around here and see the […]Archive
March 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman