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Oct.05.2011 - 10:55 am
What Would the Poet Laureate Do? An Epic Sonnet (Well, Not Really)
  What would the Poet Laureate do? Outlaw "like,"  "ya know" and such goo? Or champion the virtues of Shelley and Keats Over Wall Street's poisonous Ponzis and cheats?...
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Jan.12.2011 - 10:44 pm
We Aren't The Champions, They Are: In Praise of Special Olympics
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Having just won a Red Room writing contest for my first blog here -- Beginner's Luck, my JEALOUS literary friends insist -- I'm at a neurotic crossroads that makes Robert Johnson...
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Dec.30.2010 - 10:03 pm
Auld Lang Snide: My Plan for Doing Away With Resolutions in 2011
The author, taking a good hard look at himself through a smartphone. (Dummy.)
Some 20-odd years ago, returning home to my parents' house on a winter break from Rutgers University, I descended on my bedroom armed with a fistful of black contractor trashbags...
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Jan.12.2011 - 11:14 pm
In response to: Auld Lang Snide: My Plan for Doing Away With Resolutions in 2011
Thanks!
A lovely welcome... for a snide guy like me...
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About Louis

A professional journalist for 21 years, Lou Carlozo is a former Chicago Tribune features columnist and the current lead music critic at the Christian Century, as well as the author of the "Green Dad" column at DealNews.com. A contributor to Downbeat...
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Louis’s Favorite Books

"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Anything by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner; "Another Bullshit Night In Suck City" by Nick Flynn; "On Writing...