Salon.com People | Shane MacGowan Once upon a time, aspiring writers dived face first into fleshpots, saloons, drug dens, streets and abattoirs, both foreign and domestic. Those gritty, violent, experience-driven universities of transgression produced the likes of Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Malcolm Lowry, Fyodor Dostoevski, Brendan Behan, Knut Hamsun, Paul Bowles and Alexander Trocchi, among others.
Shane MacGowan is one of the last of their dying breed.
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Sai Baba is God incarnate. So if he has sex with his devotees it is in truth a wonderful blessing. Who's going to call God a child molester?... [
Untouchable?
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Vincent Van Gogh didn't cut off his ear after all. Keen swordsman Paul Gauguin, in an absinthe-fuelled rage, did it, or so a new theory claims...
Gauguin 'cut off Van Gogh's ear'
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Growing pot underground.
Mining the Depths for Dope Scanctioned by the government for research into medical benefits.
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