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"Music is the drip from the faucet that keeps the pipes from freezing..."
"It was the equivalent of running out of baseballs during game 7 of the World Series..."
Christmas came and went with a fury
The missing is the hardest part...
I hate myself for loving you...
Werewolves and Vampires and writing 2084
"If ever there was a line that morphed into a tripwire, that was it..."
Why would we not be fine with this?
"Florida Man makes announcement..."
It was 7 years ago today...in Paris.....
"My walks clear my head, and re-fill it with wonder..."
The three stooges of the apocalypse
I feel like a dart board in a dive bar...
The Killer is dead. Long Live the Killer...
That time when Ted Cruz ruined the National Pastime
Between inning gibberish and the Wilder brigade
The Band essays – Track 6 Side 2 – King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
The Band essays – Track 5 Side 2 – Unfaithful Servant
The Band essays – Track 4 Side 2 – Jawbone
The Band essays – Track 3 Side 2 – Look Out Cleveland
The Band essays – Track 2 Side 2 – Rockin' Chair
The Band essays – Track 1 Side 2 – Jemima Surrender
The Band essays – Track 6 Side 1 – Whispering Pines
The Band essays – Track 5 Side 1 – Up On Cripple Creek
The Band essays - Track 4 Side 1 - When You Awake
The Band essays - Track 3 Side 1 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band essays - Track 2 Side 1 - Rag Mama Rag
The Band essays - Track 1 Side 1 - Across the Great Divide
The Band essays - introduction
May you never run out of words...
Fetterman vs the "Groom on the wedding cake..."
The Tingle and American Pie and Blue Sky
"Sunday night feels like a school night again...."
"What we saw yesterday was a touch of class..."
"For every hero like Sophie Scholl, there were 1000 cowards willing to betray Anne Frank...."
"So yea, I got lines on my face now. But do you feel like I do?...."
MAGAs getting their freak on...
"Anxiety does NOT have a glass jaw..."
"They and Robert E. Lee can fuck off..."
"...we dreamt accordingly...."
The only place I've ever seen a ghost...
"Maybe if a woman was in charge at the DOJ?..."
We not so respectfully dissent.....
"A cavalcade of Republicans..."
Snoop and Diet Coke and Oral Roberts and virtual birthday cards
Two years ago this happened...
"Steve Kornacki and his magic ouija board..."
More mass shootings than days....
"The dog has finally caught the car"
Cartoon Mice and Woodrow Wilson
Here’s to growing young again....
So much for "Truth Social".......
"a day-to-day dance with fraud..."
Those summer nights (a view from the spring)
"Our better angels have lousy self-esteem..."
The novels I haven't written...
When does the devil come for you?
"I would shiver the whole night through..."
It's the most wonderful time of the year....
"....as they fight for their freedom..."
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"the strange American magic of malls"
Magazines and the card catalog