First We Take St. Louis…

(^ Reference to a Leonard Cohen song.)
 
Just got back from the Leonard Cohen show.  (By which I mean I’ve been back for about a half-hour or so…not like JUST got back…)  Great show.  He played for about three hours.  Got several standing ovations, one lasting for about a full minute (a true novelty amongst St. [...]

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Top 5 Worst Things Known to Man

My friend Larry and I were talking about it today, and we have arrived at the following list of the Top 5 Worst Things Known to Man…in sequential order.
 

The Holocaust
An under-cooked Chicken McNugget
Cancer
Hiccups
AIDS

 
Just thought you’d like to know.
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Current Listening:

Leonard Cohen – “Live in London”  SO freaking excited about the show tomorrow!!!

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I Assure You that I’m Not Stalking J. D. Salinger

So, I’m basically just waiting for J. D. Salinger to die.  Not because I don’t like him…but because I LOVE him.  (I know this sounds creepy-stalker, but I assure you I have no plans to go looking for Salinger.)
 
For those who don’t know who Salinger is, he wrote “The Catcher in the Rye” (among others).  [...]

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And we’re back.

I never quite know how to resume blogging after posts like the last couple of ones I’ve done.  The stupid crap I normally spout seems somehow stupider, crappier, and spoutier after things like that…
 
…but we’ve got to start somewhere…so let’s start here.
 
I’ve been on a Monty Python kick lately.  It’s because they just released a new [...]

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Maybe the Best Tribute…

Maybe the best tribute to Tom Wallace—or at least the one I find the most personally reassuring—is that his name is the number one search-term leading people to my blog right now, and my page hits have increased about 500% as a result.
 
To all of you stumbling upon the blog because of that…  I’m deeply [...]

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