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Archive for January, 2010

This is the business we’ve chosen

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

When I finally got home last night, I was crankier than the average bear. I was completely, thoroughly waterlogged after the final leg of my journey home — an eight mile bike ride in the pouring rain. I had just returned from two different open mics. Standing in my garage, dripping wet and miserable, all [...]

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Unresolutions: New Year’s goals for 2010

Friday, January 1st, 2010

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. To start with, the word resolved brings me back to high school debate, a series of disturbing memories best left in the repressed graveyard of teenaged shame. Yes: I was on the debate team at an all-guys high school. I had enough adolescent sexual frustration to [...]

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