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My War on Drugs Rant
Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by Colin.
SUMMARY: My War on Drugs rant condoning decriminalization.
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A Mick Reunion
Posted on 24. Nov, 2010 by Colin.
SUMMARY: I went on a bender with The Mick my first night back in Bogota. We drank Jameson, did coke, met crackheads, chased women. I accidentally smoked crack. I almost had to smack a hippie. We finished at Pechonorme’s with an unexpected guest.
Alternate Title: My 1st Night Back in Bogota
I arrived in Bogota Thursday night and the first thing I did was call up my good friend, The Mick. I brought him a Jameson gift box from America, the kind that comes with two branded glasses. … Read more
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My First Bender in Medellin
Posted on 15. Sep, 2010 by Colin.
SUMMARY: I spent my first weekend in Medellin with a couple Americans living there. Highlights include My 3rd Time Bribing Cops in Colombia FAIL and Envigado: Night of the Freak Shows.
Before coming back to St. Louis for the summer, I spent a weekend in Medellin. It was my first time outside Cundinamarca, the department of Bogota. Gringos and Colombians alike drool over Medellin. I got an invite from a reader, Zac, to crash on his couch. I was sold.
I flew in May 20 on no sleep from the night before. I realized what an asshole I was for wearing my leather jacket. Medellin’s not cold at all. To my dismay, Medellin proper is an hour away from the airport. I took a little bus through the mountains into the city. It dropped me off downtown near a metro station. … Read more
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My 2nd Time Bribing Cops in Colombia
Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 by Colin.
SUMMARY: Short dittie about my 2nd time busted smoking weed on the street with The Mick.
This story happened within a day or two after I published the story on my first time bribing cops in Colombia. Although that story occurred months before publishing it, I shied away from writing up this one because I would’ve felt like a dumb shit and a loser for having essentially the same story happen twice.
I quit drinking for over six months in Colombia. Toward the end, I started smoking weed every day all day to get by. That habit stuck after a month in the States and returning to Colombia in January. My smoking started to stink up the apartment building, annoying the neighbors. One day one of them said something about it to me and I decided not to smoke in the apartment anymore. … Read more
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Recession: An American Experience
Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Colin.
SUMMARY: My observations from my first time living in America since the global recession / credit crisis.
The subprime mortgage meltdown started around 2007, the last year I lived in the States. Economists believed the risk was contained to only subprime or the domestic house market. Since then we’ve seen big banks fail, investments plummet, and trillions of public dollars injected into banks around the world. We’ve learned about collaterized debt obligations (CDO), credit-default swaps (CDS), and a slew of other culprits in what amounts to the steepest recession since the Great Depression… Read more
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Smuggling Contraband from Colombia
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Colin.
SUMMARY: From Colombia I smuggled marijuana, cocaine, steroids, and Sinalgen (Colombian Vicodin) into the States.
I was to arrive in St. Louis just before Thanksgiving. The men in my family always burn one after dinner. It’s usually the same guys who provide the jibber. I realized I’m never the provider as I stared at a big pile of cheap Colombian marijuana on my counter. So I stuffed a fat bud into the pocket of one of the artesania handbags I bought as Christmas presents… Read more
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My 1st Time Bribing Cops in Colombia
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Colin.
SUMMARY: The Mick and I got busted smoking a joint in Chapinero. We paid our way out of it.
One morning I ran into The Mick at the bike repair shop in Chapinero on the west side of Avenida Caracas. They usually have our bikes ready within an hour so we wait. After The Mick dropped his bike off, he struck a match to light a joint fatter than his nose hanging from his lips all the way down past his chin. We walked down the block… Read more
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Contributed Story: My Last Pint in Ireland
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Colin.
SUMMARY: An American traveling through Ireland suffers a cultural faux pas, then has sex with an Irish girl.
I planned to stay only two days in Ireland, but I fell in love with it and spent two weeks seeing Dublin, Howth, Galway, Doolin, and Ennis. My last night I got wasted with two American travelers in Ennis … Read more
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Memories of My Amsterdam Whores
Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by Colin.
SUMMARY: My whore-mongering stories from the Amsterdam Red Light District in Holland, Netherlands. Includes sex workers from Czech Republic, Philippines, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Ghana, and Hungary.
My first trip to Amsterdam I’d recently been dumped by my girlfriend of 3 years, 1½ of which we lived together. A good friend had earlier tried to persuade me to have sex with a prostitute. He likened it to a rite of passage. Paying for sex makes it less important. It’s just sex. I never did because I was in love. Newly single, I fully intended to take advantage of Amsterdam’s Red Light District… Read more
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My First Paisa in Colombia
Posted on 17. May, 2009 by Colin.
SUMMARY: I get drunk and go to Plaza Lourdes to get high, where I meet my first paisa from the Antioquia subculture in Colombia.
Alternate Title: My First Run-In with Cocaine in Colombia
I met my first paisa last week. I’d heard of paisas from a guy who worked the graveyard shift at hotel in La Candelaria. He was from Medellin, the land of paisas. He told me they’re Colombia’s crazy culture – street-smart, involved in crime. Hot-headed people, quick to pull guns… Read more
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