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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything

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Why Is Kelly’s Heroes a Masterpiece?

Please observe that we’re discussing why it’s a masterpiece. If you’re still wondering if it’s a masterpiece, you’re obviously lost and need to hit the back button on your browser a few times to get back to safety. It is. We’re only here to analyze the why. We

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Lettin’ Your Freak Flag Fly

I never really recovered from Junior Wells’ album Hoodoo Man Blues. A zillion years ago I asked my older brother to teach me how to play the bass in a blues band, and he handed me the record, nearly twenty years old already. “That’s about it,” he said,

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The Porsche of Theseus

There’s something about the personality type who fixes cars that leads to bad music selection. But it’s a minor quibble. I’m sort of in awe of this whole thing. If you’re unfamiliar with the Ship of Theseus, I explained it here a year or so ago. A 1955

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Painting Your Own Personal Solipsistine Chapel

Solipsism is a term that gets thrown around a lot on these here intertunnels. Almost exclusively, it’s used to describe extreme egocentrism. Self-absorption. Narcissism. Okey dokey, nothing wrong with that. But solipsism is also a related philosophical idea. It’s not satisfied with being interested only in yourself. It

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Tuesday Trash Day Roundup Deluxe

I’m not sure what makes it deluxe, exactly. It appears to be just like a regular Tuesday Trash Day Roundup. But the intertunnel is all about marketing, n’est ce pas? I can’t just leave it at that. I have to excite the audience, right there in the headline,

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I Have a Nagging Suspicion It Was Tomorrow Yesterday

In my experience, artists, in the few times they’re right about stuff, always seem to be right for the wrong reasons. Their intellectual house is furnished in odd ways, which helps them to see things differently than other folks. Because the intellectual furniture is in weird places, they

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Greatest Hits

Bits of my life pulled out and flung on the Internet floor

They Call Me Captain Kirk

I had a fascinating and edifying conversation with my teenage son recently. He’s homeschooled. None of his friends are. He had been tentatively hired to

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Sagas and Compilations

A Kingdom Where the Sky Is Burning