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The Epic Splendor of Heroic Despair (or “Sólstafir’s Ótta Rocks!”)

Although I read them on near-daily basis, I’m not much for writing album reviews.  Sometimes I tell stories in which a particular album plays a role and I will often offer up a personal view of the...

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Homecoming: Perfectly Pleasant, Acutely Sad

I had lunch with a good friend a few months back when we happened to cross briefly in the same city.  We had remained in touch over recent years with occasional emailed updates on family, work, and...

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In Praise of Satan… and Hell, Too!

Whether part of a larger universal plan guided by some unseen hand or simply a trivial point of human history, Satan was not a part of my formative years.  As my independent personality, values, and...

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Is That Jazz?

Something just doesn’t feel right.  I have a vague sense that there is something pending; a problem to resolve or otherwise deal with to avoid some potential future disaster.  But there’s no substance...

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They Were Soldiers… and Young

It started when our daughter – born an incomprehensible 20 years after the last U.S. troops left Vietnam – came home from school anxious for us to watch a documentary she had seen in her U.S. history...

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Not Much to Say Today

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Not a Political Blog

As large swathes of our global population seem set on following populist trail guides along paths toward nationalist stupor, I find myself vacillating between fits of arrogant condescension, bouts of...

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The Top 6 KISS Posters (in my room)

  ====================== #6:  Paul Displays His Instrument (1977): I like to think I am comfortable in my own sexuality and generally relaxed with regard to the proclivities of others.  I suffer from...

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Torn on the Fourth of July

I’ve decided against going to see Ted Nugent play when he comes through Phoenix next month.  It was a tough decision to be honest.  After two decades living in places with limited such opportunities,...

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Sweet Wine of Love?

I wrote a tactless limerick: There once was a baby named Gino Who sampled routinely the vino While mom offered nipple He opted to tipple And now he’s a wino in Reno I will now show myself the door.

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