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Sum up Your Personality with 5 Books
Stolen from I Love Books: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary [1911] Greil Marcus: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock’N’Roll Music [1975] David Nasaw: The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst [2000] Claire Tomalin: Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self [2002] Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass [1855, 1856, 1860 …. ] This is not the…
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Summer Is Icumen In
Signs of approaching summer everywhere. The temperature was up in the high 60s today. Robins aplenty, but a strange and unsettling squirrel hiatus. Humidity rising. Blue sky. Roofers getting ready to lay new roofing in our complex. Guys in shorts, girls in belly shirts, both sexes in those ridiculous Venice Beach flip-flops. Oh, well. In…
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Home Is Where It Begins
They were in the back of the bus this afternoon, two off-duty AATA drivers, exchanging war stories about belligerent passengers, snotty passengers, or moronic passengers who ring the stop bell and then change their minds at the last possible second as the bus is pulling over for the stop, but mostly shaking their heads and…
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