Last month Jenny and I took a little trip. We approached it in the same manner that has become our norm whenever possible. That is, we choose a few vague…
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Five steps to better mental health: Don’t bathe your mother. Have at least one balanced nutritional meal every day. Avoid magic tricks. Fresh underwear daily. Don’t bathe your mother. I…
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The following are salutations from the inside cover of the found 1971 yearbook of Jim Hugger, Normandy Senior High School, St. Louis Missouri. Misspellings uncorrected and without notation. To the…
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Rather than “I love you because…”, how about simply “I love you.”
If you don’t know the Bob Dylan tune it is available for a listen in the audio player at the bottom of the homepage. This is a Bob Dylan composition….
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I am under the increasingly persistent impression that on a bright and beautiful May morning way back in 1965, God put on his slickest, whitest sneakers, exited his front door,…
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My 4:00 a.m. brain took a break this morning and reverted from Stanley Cup hysteria, back to the less pressing but equally exuberant subjects of death and music. I’ve always…
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I’ve got to hand it to Hollywood; they lured me into another summer blockbuster shit-show of epic proportions and ponderous duration. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me time…
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Fourteen year olds as a general rule have an innate ability to say some remarkably stupid things. In December of 1979 eleven people were killed by asphyxiation when they were…
What is life if not an endless cycle of crime and punishment, sin and penance? I’ve been reading a lot of Old Testament lately and one thing has been made…
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CHAPTER 1 “Run!” someone shouted, but it didn’t need saying. The violent shriek of contorting tires on hot summer pavement and the menacing red glow of brake lights was enough…
Unlike their readers, old books never need die. Leastwise not in the inevitable and fleeting way that we’ve come to regard our own mortality. With proper care they might outlive…
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