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I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves
In the tenth grade, my Great Books teacher mentioned that she enjoyed telling ridiculous stories to extremely gullible people.Hoping to provide her with more material, I promptly explained why songs...
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You better listen to the radio
There’s an amazing weekly program on public radio that is consuming my life.I discovered it about eleven months ago, and since then I’ve listened to all seventeen years of archived episodes. The show...
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The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough
My Intro to Linguistic Analysis professor explained that older dialects of English used to pronounce the “k” and “gh” sounds in words such as “knight.” We sadly lost them over time, and their absence...
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Kerrville Folk Festival 2013
I recently returned from the Kerrville Folk Festival in the Texas Hill Country, which I attend pretty much annually. I’ve mentioned it a couple of times before.It’s a phenomenon that’s not very easy to...
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Have I mentioned that I enjoy being good at things?
The human brain has some impressive mechanisms for revising unpleasant memories. That’s how I manage to try V-8 again every couple of years.This same phenomenon also dulled my recollections of middle...
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Hooray, it’s another story with barfing in it!
Taboo, in addition to being the vehement objection of a society to a forbidden behavior, is a word game that you probably have in your closet. Either one can be fun at parties, depending on the guest...
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Inertia
Astute readers will have noticed that I haven’t posted anything recently. I haven’t posted anything not-all-that-recently, either. It’s all part of my demanding new routine:I do not have a dramatic...
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Hi. Hey. Hi. Hi. Hello. Hey.
Hi there. So, I went to grad school for three years and just finished in December. Let’s say that’s the only reason I haven’t been writing at all, and that sloth and inertia didn’t play any part. Cool?...
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I'm starting to think that maybe children aren't universally terrifying after...
I don’t really know what to do with small children. I didn’t have to acquire much experience in this department growing up—my brother is only three years younger than I am, all of our cousins are older...
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