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Spike’s Den

My thoughts on film, TV and music, but probably more about my life in general. I've been writing this stuff for 21 years across different platforms, almost no one reads it but writing keeps me quasi-sane.

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  1. Issue · Jul 4, 2026

    No, I'm Not Dead (opens the original)

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    In the days immediately before social media took over the zeitgeist and the discourse, there were blogs. They weren’t immediately thought of as a way to make money. They were just a way to reach out to the world. I read a lot of them and then I started writing my own. Sometimes I’d write multiple posts in a single day. I’d post 10 or more times in a week. Lots of people did. There were lots of English-language Hong Kong-based bloggers 20 years ago. We seemed to all know each other. And then, the

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