With everything else you’ve accomplished, I see you’re also a practicing guitarist. I myself dabble in the craft, but I’m moreso interested in digging deep and finding out what other guitarists and other musicians are up to. And that’s why
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A few years ago a man I do not know noticed that Jim Davis’s “Garfield” was in fact not the lighthearted comic strip that gave us a brief respite from Cathy’s “Acks!” and Andy Capp’s misogyny, but a public cry
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At a women’s soccer game, the home team scores in the final minutes, and a celebration ensues which involves all of the fans running out of the stadium through a guided path and picking up coffee and muffins at a
Long Con
Classes from two different schools are in one room together, being taught by a really drunk Tom Power. Rajiv hires a guy who looks like a mix of him Drake in disguise to sit across the room from him to
What’s the Fre-quent-cy, Carlin?
I’m in a school gym, after a scoreless game of basketball. Late Night Mal (stuffing a bunch of books into her backpack): “I’m going to New York soon.” Me: “When?” Mal: “Like an hour?” Me: “And you’re taking all those