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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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One of These Things Is Not Like the Other

Let’s examine two sides of the same coin. In 1967, Warren Beatty produced and starred in Bonnie and Clyde. In 2019, Netflix produced The Highwaymen with Kevin Costner as the lead. Here’s a trailer for Bonnie and Clyde: Bonnie and Clyde is famous for a lot of things,

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Ten Bucks

We’ve had this thing kicking around my basement/workshop/lair for several years. It’s a cottage furniture dresser. We bought it at a tent by the side of the road, out in the boonies. We used to raid it quite often for junque we could salvage and perch on to

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Before CGI

Before CGI, filmmakers found people who could actually do stuff, and pointed cameras at them. In the flawed masterpiece, The Big Country, Chuck Connors and a few stuntmen showed Gregory Peck and Carroll Baker how to ride horses: There’s a great mix of humor in this drama. The

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She Comes In Colors In South Hiram, Maine

Dat’s Molly Tuttle from Palo Alto, of all places, playing at the Ossipee Valley Music Festival in South Hiram, Maine in 2022. Her whole family are bluegrass aficionados, and I believe at least one person on the stage with her is her brother. She went to school at

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Philistines Gotta Philistine

According to Wiktionary, “philistine” is an adjective meaning “lacking in appreciation for art or culture.” I think that falls far short of the definition. I forget where I heard it, but the most able assessment of a philistine I’ve ever heard is someone who knows the difference between

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AI Hijinks

I’m not sure we’ve settled on a name for Artificial Intelligence stuff, probably because it really isn’t very intelligent. It’s mostly a massive version of autofill, which is useful enough, I suppose. If you don’t want to (I don’t), you never have to look at Gargle again. Some

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Greatest Hits

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

Bass Lessons

[Editor’s Note: Written in December of 2008 and never used. Not sure why] Author’s Note: Don’t ask me; I just write the stuff. There is

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home improvement

Roofing; My Ass

It has rained most every second since I finished re-roofing the desolation that the non-hurricane Irene visited on my roof. It’s as if Divine Providence

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Sagas and Compilations

A Kingdom Where the Sky Is Burning