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Ishmael vs. Ahab vs. Jean Shepherd vs. Myself: One Night Only!

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

To my father, the height of art was Jean Shepherd reading poetry. Shepherd often read poetry on his radio show–performed it, really, as vaudevillians once did with famous verse of their day. The poems could be genuinely great writing like … Read on! —->

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“A Bunch of the Boys Were Whoopin’ It Up in the Malamute Saloon…”

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

It’s been a brutal July thus far, on pace to be the hottest one in history. (Strangely enough, all those Brave Truth-Tellers who screamed about global warming being fake when it was sort-of cold in April are nowhere to be … Read on! —->

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