"In the hunt for a serial killer nicknamed the Gay Slayer, the U.K.’s top crime show outed me to the entire country. Then doubled-down, comparing me to a gay teenage street prostitute."

Those are the words of your host, D. J. Swales, night walker of the Dark Earth and possibly reformed prostitute. Author, podcaster, and human tumbleweed, D. J. fled the bloody Northern Ireland conflict as a child, then kept on going. Since that wet night on a ferry to Liverpool, D. J. drifted across 120 countries and 45 US states. But he'll always see the world through the lens of what he calls Belfast Gothic. D. J. kept travel journals all his writing life. Most of them burned with his home in Seoul, South Korea. A dozen more disappeared in the red dust of West Texas. But their curious, kamikaze, and bookish spirit lives on in 15minutes2kill.

If the 15minutes2kill podcast was a happy hour cocktail in a Times Square dive joint, and author D.J. Swales was your bartender, what would the recipe be? Well, first the glass would be salted with Angela’s Ashes, then sweetened with syrup of Rotten Mango. Mixers would be Morbid, The X-Files, and The Amazing Race. David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs would deejay in the corner. Empty barstools would be occupied by the ghouls of Times Square-past, courtesy of Tales from the Crypt and Most Haunted.

Chasers, if required, would be flaming shots of Baby Reindeer, Crazy Rich Asians, and Encyclopedia Britannica. And if you slam back the Youtube version of this cocktail, you can expect calligraphy to flow like margaritas in Cancun.

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