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Our Annual Pumpkin Bash

I have never been much of a party person. I don’t like bars, I don’t go to clubs and come Saturday night you are more likely to find me at home watching a movie, or at a quiet bookstore sipping hot chocolate than you are at some hot night spot. Bars are too […]

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There Are Stranger Ways To Buy Flowers

Street vendors are a way of life here. Pretty much everywhere, day or night, if you are out and about you will see all sorts of people selling all sorts of things right off the street. Need some cheap DVDs or CDs? Go over to that corner. Watches and umbrellas your […]

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Bullet Lighting A Match: Crazy Awesome

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Just Try To Tell Me That My iPod Doesn’t Have A Smart Shuffle

It often seems that my iPod has a brain of its own when it shuffles.  Constantly it will play two or three songs by the same or a similar artist in a row.
Just now it played “Deep Ellum Blues” by Jerry Garcia and John Kahn, then it played “To Lay Me Down” by the Grateful […]

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Random Shuffle - Jimmy Cliff, The Ramones, Willie Nelson

I’m put my music collection on shuffle mode and talking about the songs that come up.
I’m less interested in giving a simple review of each song than I am in the personal emotions and memories these songs conjure. I prefer to talk about music as an experience rather than something to be measured […]

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The Listening Room: “St. Monday” By Billy Bragg

I can tell you precisely why this song has been playing in my head all morning. Yesterday I was called and asked to substitute for an English class on Monday. I’ve always had this tendency to think about the things I have to do in the upcoming days. As such I keep […]

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An Office With A View

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The Weekly Playlist - This Ones For The Ladies

Last week it was all about the ladies. After seeing several of my favorite female artists get their butts kicked the week before, I decided it was time to let the ladies get an all out assault.
After that Dylan reclaims his ground, the Dead continue getting major play, and I remember a favorite album […]

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Dumbledore Is Gay

It seems Harry Potter’s author, JK Rowling, recently let out the bombshell that Albus Dumbledore, Harry’s mentor and aged guide, is gay.
It may be a bombshell, but I gotta say I’m not really that phased.
But I may be the only one who doesn’t really care. The Christian Right is up in arms […]

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Things To Watch While You Are Sick

I spent the better part of last week trying to get sick. I usually spend about half of the year with some variety of cold. I have terrible allergies and once they get going, they stick around for many months.
Headaches, sniffles, noses that run, and coughing are the usual symptoms. Coughing especially. […]

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