Grand National Day

REMEMBER I SAID I SLEPT NINE HOURS during daylight yesterday? Well I went to bed and slept nine hours more. If only they set up marathons for sleep --(imagine it! Lying there with a head full of brainwave probes to preclude cheating-!!)-- I would surely win. Of course, in real life, forced into doing something that comes so naturally yet before an audience, my body would simply refuse to perform. (When I was in Amsterdam that's how I ended up in that employment tribunal having got fired from the live sex show ... (long story))

(And if you believe that ... (!))

I apologize. My brains are scrambled. When I logged on I had been waiting for two hours. Hanging on a piece of string that my evil heroin dealer toyed with me like a cat with a half-dead rodent. You'd think I was asking for tick, the offhand manner he answered my repeated demands of "where are you?" When you do need credit, this one, if he says yes at all, will make you wait for up to eight or nine hours. And it's not just me who gets this, btw; I know a few of his other customers. No matter who you are, how much money you're spending, or what you do, the treatment is always the same. Why do they treat us addicts so badly? Because they know they can. This particular one sells for £15 what most would charge £20 for. So he knows someone like me, who has only £15, is going to wait, unable (in the immediate term) to go anywhere else... not for £15. So he wins again. I sat there bellyacheing and trying to reread bits of Prince of the City.

How different things are in 2007 London compared to 1971 New York City!! The New York Narcotics cops ran through a system of informants who scored heroin, basically "grassed" on their dealers and were duly paid in heroin by the cops. Knowing full-well the dealers knew who they were, they found themselves in a predicament of having burned out their street connexions; they became unable to score off any street dealers... while their habits raged on. And so they relied exclusively on cops to supply their daily fixes of "junk". In reciprocation they continued to do the police favours as the opportunities to do so arose. Here, what they are more likely to do is go undercover, camera'd up, wired for sound they make the buys themselves. Then no-one can dispute who did or said what once the case comes to court. Heroin was given to a suspect during a police interview some years ago. I don't remember what happened, whether or not he overdosed, but the case hit the media and was all over the newspapers and TV news for days. In early 1970s New York the whole system seemed inherently corrupt. As long as the criminals either left the country or got locked up it didn't matter how many laws were broken along the way. Aside from the bailmoney they lost through jumping the country, these criminals were "fined" many thousands of dollars in money the police simply took -- stole from them. Because they were police, and because the entire system was ricketty and corrupt, there was no-one to complain to ...

& btw:--

IN APPROXIMATELY TWO HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES from my keying these letters the 2007 Grand National will run, so good luck everybody!!

PS (American) Junky asked me what the Grand National actually is...

The Grand National is the biggest horse race we have. The great thing about British & Irish racing is that, due to our clement climate, for the winter 6 months of the year the horses can jump hedges (the ground is soft enough if you fall off).

The Grand National has about 40 horses running over 4 and a half miles. Loads of horses fall. Great horses can get nowhere. It's really hard to predict the winner...

Which is why everyone watches and about half the nation bets on it!!

So good luck to the Queen and everyone else having a "flutter" ...

What am I saying? As long as you've backed one of the 2 horses I did!!!