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Lego Obsession

A car buzzes down the Mass Pike. I’m asleep in the passenger seat. But it’s not a deep sleep. It’s that kind of wakeful nap that mixes half dreams and music playing on the stereo. My head nods to the side as the car changes lanes. When I wake up I realize, even while unconscious, […]

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One Man’s Car

Journalism

Like a lot of people I loved my first car but it has been a long time since I cared about an automobile. I avoid attachment to objects, especially those that get awful gas mileage. For a while my wife and I got by without a second car. It was inconvenient but even in the […]

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On the Road with Mark Twain

The Copy Biz

Steam engines, newspapers, Lake Tahoe, Seal Rock, the Sierra Nevada’s… it was all there. Great to see Twain’s autobiography on the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. Plus it ties in nicely with the Reality Tour I did for Traveling Well. This Clemens gem was certainly true of my first escorted tour experience…. “I have […]

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The Naked Cowboy: Underwear, Muscles, Ass Grabs, Being the King, and a Search for the American Dream

Features

“I’m you and you me.”’ – The Naked Cowboy The Naked Cowboy, a modern legend of metropolis, hits the pavement playing his guitar. Times Square hums, the center of the world. Thousands of people pass by everyday. Still, even the most jaded of New Yorker stops to take a look. In a place that has […]

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A couple of quotes for today (and one from HST)

The Copy Biz

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. ~David Brinkley Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile—and the rest […]

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A Rare Individual

Journalism

I’m going to miss my friend Bob. This summer he decided it was time for a big change. He’s moving (probably on the road right now) to Nashville. It’s not like me. I don’t miss people, especially ones I work with. Think about it. If you work a 40 hour week, that’s around 2000 hours […]

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The Ice Man

Journalism

Once the first snow of the season arrives, laying down that semi-permanent mix of ice and grime, I grow cautious. Regardless, I’ll mange to fall a couple of times this winter. I’ve never been good on the slippery stuff. It goes back a long way. During elementary school (I’ve blocked out the exact year) my […]

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Monty-Python, Insanity and Genius

Features

A knight rides an imaginary horse through the English country side. Slapping coconuts provide the hoof beats. What else could it be but “Monty Python and the Holy Grail?” Right away, as the film opens, the boys from Monty Python establish a lunatic logic . The kings of British comedy cut along the bleak landscape, […]

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Book Review: Don’t You Forget About Me

Book Reviews

Don’t You Forget About Me Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it” This collection of essays, edited by Jaime Clarke, was a wonderfully painful read. It brought back a lot of memories. John Hughes’ films […]

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