52 Things I've Learned
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Mush
May
10
Mush
I ain’t fancy enough to know the whole difference between memoir and autobiography, but I got titles for both.  Well, sort of.  Title for one and a half-finished working title for the other.  If it’s a book about trying to make some sense of the ride, the title will be “A Few Small Repairs.”  And...
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Quiet Time
Apr
15
Quiet Time
County Highway CS west of the Hardees at the I90 Loves truck stop may seem an odd place to ponder late-stage capitalism.  But I have some alone time and who knows how these ponderings begin.  Maybe because the Hardees shoe-horned into the corner of Loves never registered with me before.  The...
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COMMS
Apr
13
COMMS
What if The Replacements were not just the best band of all time -- too cool for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- but also ran an obscure firefighter t-shirt company?  What if “Lights that flash in the evening” was not a lyric to Can’t Hardly Wait but was stenciled in a Swiss modernist font in white...
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