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Front Row Seats
Front Row Seats How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! And if you’re really famous you get to Madison Square Garden. [...]
Pardon me while I have a strange interlude
Comedy, for me, is reified in the Animal Crackers scene when madcap Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx) steps away from staid [...]
First Boss Very Good, and years later came the Really Bad Boss
The summer between high school and college (1975), I worked for a bank on the teller line. My first boss was decent, [...]
The Last Time
Saying goodbye to a furry friend is never easy, even if you've only known him for a few days.
Know when to hold ’em
Kenny Rogers hadn’t sung that song when I was introduced to the fun you can have with a deck of cards. In our neck of [...]
The Wheat Field
The Wheat Field My grandparents emigrated from eastern Europe, and my parents lived through a world war – my father [...]
Too Much Wine With Peter, Paul, and Mary
In the summer of 1981, I went to the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland to hear Peter, Paul, and Mary. They had [...]
Terror, Reified
As far as I know, no ban has ever been imposed on any book that I wanted to read in the place and time that I wished to read it.
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