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Category Archives: loss

When I woke up in the morning the feeling was still there

angus fairhurst
when i woke up in the morning the feeling was still there

a much more engaging and humble piece by alex james in the independent about the suicide of his friend angus fairhurst (4.10.1966 – 29.3.2008) than the annoying self-serving piece by tracy emin which i linked some time ago to in ephemeral.
unlike his close [...]

this is catherine whiting

a story is doing the rounds of the internets about an 80 year old man in new york who has been calling his late wife’s answering service every day since she died in 2005 just to hear her voice. unfortunately the phone company deleted the message and the old man was heartbroken. tough shit said [...]

list of things lost (addendum)

elsewhere i am writing on loss and i have started a list there of all the things i’ve lost – at three thirty this morning i woke up remembering another item to add to the list : the patti smith piss factory single on the original mer label (and the stanley single by snatch!) were [...]

the battle for the wooden spoon

as i am currently writing elsewhere football allows me to take pleasure in loss, but all good things must come to an end or so they say, and so next week brings the last games of the footy season, that is for those of us who support losers that don’t figure in [...]