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Sep.17.2011
“Copeland looks drunk.” I said.
Miles was off babbling to Annette as we hauled amps and guitar in through the back doors of the van. Dik came up and joined us.
“Fuck my old boots, if I didn’t know better I’d say old Miles was a bit squiffy.”
“He is.” Miki said.
“But I thought he...
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Sep.16.2011
The "Sound Man" blogs are all excerpts from my book "Stairway To Nowhere"
Miki was looking for traffic lights where they were supposed to be - stuck on top of a ten foot pole, not strung in the middle of the street on a wire twenty five foot up in the air.
That was why he slewed the van through...
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Jul.13.2011
Photo: (AP/Ross D. Franklin) Adrian Gonzalez, Boston Red Sox, hitting a homer in the 4th inning of the All-Star Game
Interesting thing I discovered today. I'm looking to buy an Adrian Gonzalez (first baseman, Boston Red Sox) autographed picture and I saw two that I liked on two different sites...
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Jul.08.2011
BOSTON, 1979
Miki was looking for traffic lights where they were supposed to be - stuck on top of a ten foot pole, not strung in the middle of the street on a wire twenty five foot up in the air. That was why he slewed the van through his first downtown Boston red light. Miles Copeland went a...
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Apr.18.2011
As you may (or may not) know, today Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon. The twenty-nine-year-old Kenyan ran 26.2 mile course in 2 hours, 3 minutes and 2 seconds, the fastest time ever.
The Boston Marathon
Meanwhile, I sat at my desk all day…
Today, I started a new writing project and...
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Feb.28.2011
Gracias Archelina Sportsman Morandus, my great-grandmother, was the reason I wrote a vampire novel. Born in 1883 to an Ioway Indian horse trainer and an African-American New Englander, Gracias, moved with her mother back east after her father died.
There, still a child, Gracias was married off to a...
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Jan.12.2011
My previous blog told of an all-poetry bookstore opening in Boulder, Co. The article said there were only three others in the USA. However, my manuscript entitled HE LIVES IN THE CITY/HE DRIVES TO THE COUNTRY somehow escaped consideration (go figure).
In CITY/COUNTRY my central character is the...
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Jan.09.2011
'Understudy' a comedy about Kafka - and a lot moreby Alicia Blaisdell-bannon
BOSTON — "The Understudy," making its Boston premiere at The Lyric Stage Company this month, is about the theater, love, betrayal, disappointment, human connections, Franz Kafka, mistaken perceptions,...
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Sep.29.2010
It's time for this year's Money Magazine "Best Places to Live," and the fact small towns dominate the list of 100 cities should come as no surprise. Overcrowding in America's modern metropolises presents a wide array of safety and logistical problems for families, not to mention...
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Sep.12.2010
Seeking one long-beloved in the bookstores of the Village A name with busts inside to back it up. (David Lyon for The Boston Globe) By David Lyon With all deference to the online bookselling behemoths, I would rather hunt for books in shops that smell like fine old paper and leather bindings,...
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