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Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke
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— 16 Apr 2005 Martin Skidmore Comment

Unless the search is failing me, I haven’t reviewed anything by him here before. He’s a writer I love, another of that breed of crime writers who isn’t up to much if what you want is a mystery with clues that you can try to solve al[…]

The Rules of Porn
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— 16 Apr 2005 Martin Skidmore Comment

Warning: explicit content. In case the title wasn’t a clue.
I saw an ad for a Channel 5 show about plastic surgery the other day, and it seemed to think it was a surprise revelation that big breasts are popular in porn. I know that we aren&#821[…]

Who’s Who in the Purple Gang
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— 16 Apr 2005 Anthony Easton Comment

I was reading Revolution in the Head, and the writer told me that the song You?ve Got to Hide your Love Away had no queer content at all?and I always thot it was the most queer song in pop before the rainbow broke ca 1970, reading the lyrics again an[…]

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