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Like a waterfall in slow motion, Part One (Fri, 18 Nov 2022)
She wants her planet back. Woolfy – “Shooting Stars” Funny how his voice in this song made me think he was singing ratchet instead of rapture. I heard this song on Monday morning for the first time and have returned to it over and over again because of that word. I left my home to ...
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God Bless America! (Thu, 10 Nov 2022)
FROM THE ARCHIVES | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 06.06.2004 ….. It’s been a troubling weekend for the American People. Creed split up, Ronald Reagan died, Smarty Jones didn’t win the Triple Crown, and Jennifer Lopez got married, again. How will we ever pick up the pieces and move on to porn. One of the reasons Jon ...
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It isn’t something you forget so easily (Tue, 08 Nov 2022)
Mimi Parker of the band Low died on Saturday night following a battle with ovarian cancer. I recently wrote about seeing this duo in 1997 in a small house in Salt Lake City. I was in the midst of leaving the Mormon church at the time, startled by a man I was dating into the ...
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Don’t get sentimental (Mon, 07 Nov 2022)
The following song is the fifth track on OK Computer, an album released by Radiohead 25 years ago. It has always been my favorite song, and I consider it to be Radiohead’s crowning achievement as a band. Radiohead – “Let Down” My best friend at the time thought that one of the most important lyrics ...
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How you wanted it to be (Mon, 31 Oct 2022)
Every Halloween I experience a muscle memory wherein I reach for my camera while gathering a costume for The Original Meme Dog, he who made me a mother a few years before Leta did. That may sound like a weird sentiment, but Former Congressman Henry Buck Chucklesworth rolled through my life with the force of ...
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