2005 DIED: Richard Pryor, US standup comedian, actor (65), of cardiac arrest, Brewster's Millions
09:50
It's 9am Sunday morning. 9.14. Voices from the alley below. Fellas talking. Dubs. Negotiating. Pea-size produce. Tracksuit cords give way to leather belts.
The woolly-hatted one pulls out some beads. One guy is straining for the hit. He's ranging, like a panther caged, frustrated and flicking the leather strap off his leg. Deal done, he whips the works out. Blood fills up the syringe in his arm. It's brown-red, impure.
I shout out to them. Feck off or I'll call the police. They ignore me. Fecking junkies. He's drawing his blood out, mixing it, pumping heroin in. “I'll call the Gaurds.” They could give a fuck. I say, fine, I'll get the police. The cops pretend they don't even know where my street is. Unbelievably, the junk merchant and the scabby kiddict start fighting each other. Bitch slapping each other out of it. I call out. His friend is hitting up. I call out. Give over. Ignore me. They ignore everything I try to say or do.
The cops never arrive. Moods lifted, the young junkies hopscotch toward the river, scratching their balls. The dealer screams at them from a distance, more aggression. They feck off. Back to Sunday.
10:10
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10:35
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14:58
Junk on junk attack.
15:03
What's an Anti-Social Banning Order (ASBO) going to do for them, eh? Banning hoodies in public places leads to red ears in December. The Afghan War is spilling blood on my doorstep. Things are escalating. The coming months are going to be rough. Deepest winter. Devil weather.
18:35
I don't ever want to look out my window again. Dublin is a veritable minefield of underfoot hazards. From the merely filthy such as cigarette butts carpeting every pavement to the toxic dog turd. Now I'm looking out for syringes. And guess what? I found two.
18:55
He done a Haughey and got off lightly:
The Irish Times 10/12/2006
17:44 Ex-Chilean dictator Pinochet dies aged 91
19:29
Too-bee-doo wop wop say it wot yeah.
20:09
All is not lost. At least he had the decency to do it in his arm and not some other region of his body.
