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Sep.04.2011
I entered the "Double Your Money" soundproof vocal booth and donned the cans. I was told to keep my gob six inches away from and pointed at the microphone. We got a vocal volume level, a track playback level, and away we went.
The opening chords of "I Don’t Take Drugs, I Don’t Tell Lies" sliced...
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Jul.19.2011
I made the mistake of turning on the news the other day while I was in my art studio trying to paint. After and hour or so I realized I was completely stressed. My painting wasn’t going well and I was twisting on my chair and muttering about the news. I realize they need to fill airspace but...
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Jul.08.2011
I suppose it’s only reasonable to cut President Obama a little foreign policy slack. After eight years of diplomacy so inept it could offend a televangelist getting a lap dance in Vegas, there’s something to be said for suave.
But, not to put too fine a point on it, diplomacy is...
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May.26.2011
Once upon a time, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, there came a great famine. Many families went hungry, many lost their homes, and even the rich put out the begging bowl.
Feed us, said the fat to the thin, for without us the land shall surely die. And the frightened...
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Apr.14.2011
Often, at parties or other gatherings, someone will walk up, introduce him/herself and, as an icebreaker, will say, "I understand you're a writer." My response, as I try to charm through self-deprecation: "Well, there seems to be a debate raging on that subject."
I'm trifling...
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Nov.25.2010
November 25
One and One
The person who has nothing is vague. The person who has too much alludes. And these people may falsely mistake one another for kindred when what you draw your conclusions from are the poems, sweet words, which flow out of these divergent...
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Oct.09.2010
October 9
. The Problem with the Peter’s Principle
Is there a harsher lesson than learning that love is not the same as trust? This is a fact all the more painful because it is true. Affection is not the safeguard of sanctity. I am...
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Aug.24.2010
If you haven’t watched the documentary you won’t know more about Tillman than what certain public officials want you to know: He earned a Silver Star Medal as a combat hero, who saved the lives of his fellow soldiers during a Taliban ambush. Several star-studded Generals, Secretary of State Donald...
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Jun.07.2010
June 7
Discussions with my Disease
“You’re not the girl I used to know.”
“Not the girl you used to love is what you mean?”
“You’re different is all I mean to say.”
“The rest you leave there to rot, unsaid?”
“Something has happened to you.”
“Is it something that...
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May.21.2010
Is fiction the 21st Century's nonfiction? From many points of reference, it is. We are inundated with the gyrations and hubris of movie stars, politicians, government, sports figures, singers, authors, You Tubers, bites & bits from social networkers, and staged stunts on "reality"...
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