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Author’s Note: Life on Wheels is an ongoing series of memoir entries centered on the many cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles and other vehicles I have owned over the years. Names and places …
Fifty Ways to Leave Wherever
From my earliest memories I have been confounded by the popularity of many common foods, as in my experience they are so intensely flavorful that I absolutely cannot imagine voluntarily …
Picky Picky
Starting in 1958, the sound of American pop music became heavily influenced by the aesthetic sensibilities of a single neurotic teenage boy from New York City. Phil Spector’s “Wall of …
Steve Albini: The Anti-Spector
Everything in this story is true. Though I happily left my small, provincial hometown decades ago, I do keep up with my old friends who remain there, and occasionally go …
Hey! Let’s Go Bowling! Read More
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With Love From Me to You
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A Long Slow Season
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Ramble On
There is a meme going around social media these days, shared chiefly among late Boomers and Gen Xers, featuring the image above, and bearing the legend: DON’T TELL ME ABOUT …
From Spiked Beer to Champagne
Everything in this story is true. The turmoil of my childhood home life is well documented elsewhere on this site, and readers of my other memoir chapters have good reason …
Vacation! All I Ever Wanted
Everything in this story really happened. Names and minor identifying factors have been changed for the usual reasons. “Hey, man,” said Sid Garrison, his thin face breaking into a wide …
Acid Test ’89