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New Dylans

Once upon a time there was a songster sans compare. He wrote the best of lyrics and had really funky hair. He became the standard by which all others would sink and almost instantaneously the press devoted ink to finding … Continue reading

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RIYL

Recommended if you like sadism. Recommended if you like nasal vocals. Recommended if you like performances of varied quality. Recommended if you like brilliance. Recommended if you like torture. Recommended if you like tortured brilliance. Recommended if you like sensitivity … Continue reading

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Polly + Anna

On the plus side I’m learning a lot about our legal system and the metric system and biological systems (like, say, the melting point of flesh and just how much heroin a human body can contain) as well as how … Continue reading

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Ghost

It’s just easier to Irish Goodbye. No muss no fuss no delays in getting on the road… it simplifies everything, really. It’s clean. It’s surgical, smart. No excuses required to loved ones. No need to worry about loved ones. No … Continue reading

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Travel Times

I’ve been biking. I’ve been practicing. I’ve been exercising to improve my capacity and experience and to leave me better able to play if you ever invite me out for a ride. I let you know sometime back how much … Continue reading

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Completist Revision)

Paul Simon is a pretty talented guy but he is known in song on days to tell a lie. He sang, if you listen close, of solely three modi back in the hit, “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.” See, … Continue reading

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Sanctified Songs

You go to the open mics, you sip from that chalice of communal art, and eventually you’re gonna find yourself in the company of a couple or three songs over and over (sigh…) and over again. You may like them … Continue reading

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WWDD

The problems in the world grow greater every year. The times, they are a’changin’, I can state with all due fear. An idiot wind’s blowing in to the town today and I sometimes need to ask myself if there is … Continue reading

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Quits

Spitsbergen is Nordic, Norwegian, and warmer than other countries in similar latitudes, thanks to some midnight sun. It is the place where we protect our most important seeds in an impossibly strong fortress so that we never lose the means … Continue reading

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Stallions

I got back to you as soon as I could. The moment that we got cut off I thought you’d had something important to tell me. But I got to a tunnel just then, and I didn’t hear the end … Continue reading

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