Tales from the Burning Bear

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The Burning Bear is a strange attractor for the weird, baroque and alternately real, and that's just its customers. The tales they tell are best heard with a stiff drink to hand.

About Steve Kelsey

I lived through the first Cold War. Iโ€™m a Londoner, contrary, widely traveled, prone to wild exaggeration and prevarication in equal measure. I make a hopeless role model. โ€œ... your views are just utterly incoherentโ€œ Dan Lyndon - critic

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