Continue Reading Infamous poet, ineffectual spy. So far this week, aside from a guy on balls, we’ve met a woman pretending to be a man, a woman acting…
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Continue Reading 2018: A Space Ball Odyssey I don’t know the man. In fact never heard of him before, until I came…
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Continue Reading Swift Apparitions This mini-Trump. This histrionic, petulant, entitled, raging, shameless small man. This liar. Even in the details – The WSJ reports that he…
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Continue Reading Chance Encounter What do Llamas, the Boy Scouts, Brazilian drummers, clowns and high school cheerleaders have in common? They were out in force to…
Continue Reading Unexpected Sounds “On second thought, maybe I should go to the concert. Even if it is church music played in a church. Or maybe…
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Continue Reading Fall Prep Be warned: today’s blog will read like the back of a cereal box, or the kind of placemat factoids meant to keep…
