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A Complete Unknown

"And now for the come-down....(except...)"

The hellish, Orwellian iceberg awaiting your cruise ship....

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Baader-Meinhof visits New Jersey....

The Songs - Reservation Girl

Here we are....

The Dark

Clarence the angel and the Dukakis tank...

The Songs - Northern Sky

Squirrels and Firetrucks

The Songs - Volunteers

"Politically speaking, Democrats have been following the orders of the referee while wrestling the guy with brass knuckles tucked in his shorts...."

We’re now living inside an Onion article...

“In Search Of….”

FAFO

"Putin is doing the Prisiadka today...."

Today is the day.....

Bits and Pieces - F--k Your Feelings / Garbagegate / WTF Ads / Tomorrow is 4 months away

It’s a bad idea when billionaires own newspapers

The minute I became old enough to say “f--k this”, I said “f--k this”.....

The 2020s

The Songs - Mainstreet

Bits and Pieces - None more black / Coachella / disappearing buses / Benjamin Franklin / brown cows

"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball...."

The 2010s

"Don't build monuments to the living, for they can still disgrace the stone...."

"He was always the rainbow...."

Helene

The Aughts

Fall / Libraries / Bigfoot / Radiohead / Just Say No

The 90s

Mr. Creosote and the Concepts of a Plan...

The 80s

The circle of “this can’t happen here” is forever getting smaller....

Ed Randazzo and the Soul of a Man...

The 70s

The 60s

Hulk Hogan and the Wiggles

The Songs - Tom Sawyer

"If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one..."

"...being taken for a ride 3 chords at a time...."

The Songs - Green Grass & High Tides

All it took was one word....

Weirdos and the blue meanies....

The Songs - Fall Down

"Benjamin Franklin suggested that writers should only write what they wish to read...."

The Songs - Mike Collins

"It was a quiet day yesterday. Until it wasn’t...."

"These are surely the times that try men’s souls, in a different way of course...."

"If you were walking together and not paying attention you might end up talking to yourself...."

On mortality.....

The Songs - The Show Goes On

"I wondered if the MAGAs in my hood would finally replace their Trump flags with ones of George III....."

The Songs - Volunteers

"....like punching Chuck Wepner in the face...."

"...Like tectonic plates pushing together..."

The Songs - Back in the High Life Again

The Killer and pools that can fit in your backseat....

"From a child to a sudden grown-up is the difference between Little Richard and Pat Boone..."

The Songs - Love is Alive

D-Day

Helter Skelter and Grendel

The Songs - I Wish

"We’d have to import marble...."

The Songs - Thirteen

The proper doses....

The Songs - America

I'm Not Like Everybody Else

The Songs - Ain't Wastin' Time No More

The Songs - Inside Out

The Songs - What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?

The jump scare...

Tortured poets and not understanding Jazz or the need for Jack Antonoff....

The Songs - Tough All Over

"...snarled traffic and MAGA tears...."

The Songs - Nights on Broadway

The Public Library

We should never do this eclipse thing again...

The Songs - Purple Rain

Remo Gaggi and Ohtani

The Songs - A Sort of Homecoming

"Here’s what you need to know..."

"The system is a trip wire...."

Waldo's

"I wouldn’t blame you if you needed to take notes on all this. It’s a lot to ponder...."

The Songs - There She Goes

The tired spot....

The Songs - Waterfall

"An actual Rastaman Vibration that was real....."

Marley and Me

The Songs - Wichita Lineman

"We seem to lack the ability to shame ourselves..."

The Songs - Romeo and Juliet

Person, woman, man, camera, TV....and Elvis

The Songs - Take Five

The Songs - Fast Car

The Songs - Nightswimming

The Songs - Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

A Good Night Was Had For Days

The Songs - Surrender

The Songs - Tutti Frutti

The Songs - Found Out About You

The Songs - In a Big Country

The Songs....

Where the Rose is Sown....

The Iron Claw