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Let the Bluegrass Shake

When I see him, I’m going to walk up to Russ Smith and squeeze him.

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Notes from underground

You remember the durndest things when you’re hunkered down in the storm cellar.

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‘Things will be great when you’re Down-ton’

If I’m diligent and steadfast in my work today, I will reward myself with a guilt-free hour of public television this evening.

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I said, ‘Hey, what is going on?’

I may never fully recover from the psychic trauma visited on me by the insufferably zany be-dreadlocked band 4-Non-Blondes and their all-too-memorable charting single “What’s Up?”

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The unbearable lateness of being

Remember when “multi-tasking” actually meant something? Me neither.

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Crime Time

Ours is a culture whose preoccupation with criminality and justice has come to be, in clinical terms, fetishistic.

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Operation Black Hole

Sure, relaxing and spending quality time with my family and friends on Thanksgiving was pretty good.

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Schooled

Even though I was only 9 years old in 1986, I have been trying to ameliorate, forget or otherwise recover from one error in judgment that has dogged my every step for the past 25

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The hits just keep on coming

I was always a little dubious about the tooth fairy. It just seemed so implausible.

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Trouble believing in anything? Join the club

People are expected to believe in things.