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Latitude.

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2023/08/10

My junior high daughter has started doing math for fun, so I guess that summer is coming to a close. Not quite the swallows coming home to Capistrano, but it does indicate that it’s probably time to wrap it up and get ready for the rest of the year.Summer has been what it always is in the core of the northern hemisphere; dependably warm and lush, tree-wise. It’s strange to think that it’s snowing in Argentina: it’s 37 degrees in Ushuaia right now. (I did look that up. Ushuaia. I don’t have the

3:36

Fulton Street.

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2023/08/03

languid: exhibiting a natural disinclination to physical exertion; leisurely; unhurriedUnder a giant beach umbrella in a sturdy beach chairsits a woman wearing a wide brimmed hat and sunglasseswho sips something very coldthrough a colorful strawfrom a very tall glasswhich she sets downlightlyon the little white table beside herso that she may continue toread a book,languidly.I’ve read booksI’ve been on a beachand I’ve even worn a pretty big hatbut as of yet have not hit the tremendous trifectaof

7:45

Foreign Vacation.

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2023/07/27

It was after church, right after church, so I didn't even get to take my tie off. The basement was finished and furnished, but it was still a basement, without windows, and my suit felt hot; polyester not breathing, and I was eleven, and church had already been 3 hours long, and then we all said we'd come to Miss McClaine's house after to see her slide show.She'd laid out nuts and dried apricots along with jell-o salad. It wasn't as heresyish as it sounds because she'd been to Egypt, that's what the

6:05

The Beach.

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2023/07/20

My wife is from California. As a little girl she saw The Wizard of Oz, where, as you might remember, the plot is driven by a tornado’s direct effect on an impossibly sturdy wooden cabin. Zoë didn’t like that much, and decided that she’d never like to visit there, that was crazy, clouds attacking people was not the kind of thing that was supposed to happen, that was really bad.I am from Kansas, and as there are many more films and television shows about the edges of our landmass than the middle, I

4:47

Now, Our Feature Presentation.

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2023/07/13

Drive-ins don’t have anything you go to the movies for; there’s not great sound, the picture is ok but not pristine, there’s no quiet, no comfy seats, there’s not even dark, really.But it’s amazing. You can eat whatever you want, you can lay on a blanket, the stars are up above your head. It’s a cinematic picnic - with no grass or sunshine, not entirely about the movie, really. Sure, there’s one playing; usually there were three – the first one was great, the second was always “ok”, and the third

4:51

well, that happened.

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2023/07/06

Two mimes.And they’re married.And they are on tv.Not only that, they have their OWN tv show.On a major network.In prime time.Weekly.And it’s an hour long.And it’s a hit.Hahahhahahaha……ah.That’s real, by the way. If you can’t imagine a future where that could possibly happen, it’s probably because it has already happened.In 1977 (and 1978) Shields and Yarnell had a summer replacement series on CBS. He was a mime, she was a dancer, and together they created this new thing that had never been seen

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My Inner Voice’s Subway Ride To Work. (transcript)

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2023/06/29

I have that same t-shirt. With the blueprint of the Voltron robot. That exact shirt – from the subscription boxes I used to get. Heh.Hmn.It looks way different on that guy.A different size? He's my same height, though... you could only order it in small, medium, and large; and the small fits a little kid - and the larges are for, like, The Rock.It’s gotta be the medium.It really does look different, though.Maybe it’s our laundry detergent. Maybe we have hard water. Does hard water make cotton

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SUMMER REPLACEMENT SERIES - EP. ONE: SING, MEET SUPPER

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2023/06/22

Let me tell you a little story:I arrived in New York City, winter of ‘93. I needed a job. So far I’d been a tutor, office assistant, café worker, cabaret performer, security person, housecleaner, lead singer, film editor, data input guy, nanny, scriptwriter, and telephone fortune teller. None of these stuck as a career. Now I was a husband and suddenly, a New Yorker.I put on a blue suit, the nice one I used to wear on Sundays, and started interviewing, my goal to secure work in the city while my

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one one thousand

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2023/06/15

For the last 41 years I have had a one second summer vacation, right at the beginning of the season. I uncontrollably smile, my whole body relaxes, and I look so forward to eight to twelve weeks of sleeping late and watching Captain Kangaroo every morning while eating cereal for both breakfast and lunch, reading books in three hour long stretches. enjoying a popsicle from the freezer after a full day’s work cutting the grass (and hand trimming around the front steps), then lying on a blanket atop

5:41

Fever Dream.

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2023/06/08

As a kid, you feel invincible.Your body is just one thing: you don’t think about your knees or your back or your eyes as separate, they’re part of a bio-spaceship you’re piloting around. The older I get the more I become a jigsaw puzzle of discrete physical pieces, each with their own set of verbs.My ears? Ring. My jaw clicks. My gut… roils. And the rubber-band physics that used to define motion have been separated too; up and down is now: down.And up. Two choices. Two clear efforts. Neither in any

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...move along.

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2023/06/01

When my college reunion was announced, I began writing a poem. I missed the physical event due to the complications of our car being filled with water, but I finished the poem anyway. That’s what this is.A while agoAn age agoI left a Universityfilled with a stomach full of hope and half a head of let's just seehaving traded anecdotes and studied some and kissed some folks and sung a bit and played guitar I looked ahead (well, not too far)I broke a pipe and launched a hatand made no further plans

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Great Aspictations.

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2023/05/25

I cannot remember names. I never could. Delightfully, there was lockdown. During online meetings everyone’s name was right below their face like a caption in a Criterion film. Cheat codes. “Hello, Patricia!” I would say at School Leadership Team meetings. “How was your weekend, Rebecca?” I would nonchalantly add. Now, if I see you face to face, my background isn’t blurred, but my foreground is. I have no idea what your name is. Names are not part of my relationship with memory.This column stands

8:54

MOXIE.

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2023/05/18

Have you ever had that dream where you’re back in school and it’s suddenly finals time and you haven’t finished the work? So have I! Also, I’ve had that happen to me when I was awake, more than once.The first time was in high school, when I decided to try to write a piano concerto. I did not know how to write a piano concerto. But I had MOXIE.I approached my music teacher with the idea that my school’s concert orchestra might play it for me. He regarded my request with ardent curiosity. I don’t

7:22

A Very Nice Place To Start.

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2023/05/11

I would not dare to refer to myself as a professional writer; perhaps more of a storied amateur, a local craftsperson, an inspired aspirant. I’ve just begun writing things people could read, and you never learn anything at the beginning. At the beginning it all seems to be going well because you don’t know the difference.My first class in college was a Literature course where we began with Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The professor copied part of the prologue on the blackboard and had someone read it

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And That's The Way It Is.

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2023/05/04

I called my Mom to say hello, and she asked if I’d heard a certain story “on the news”. I said I hadn’t. So she told me the story. It was “the news”, so the story wasn’t really a happy one. I don’t expect news to be happy; the words “have you heard this” or “I’ve got to tell you something” rarely lead, in my limited experience, to a happy story.“You’re listening to BBC World News. Today, kittens…”Growing up, news wasn’t happy either, but it was at least assumed to be “true”. Now if someone tells me

5:55

eight eight eight

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2023/04/27

I just read an article that said getting six hours of sleep a night was as bad as not sleeping for two days straight. There was research, in a laboratory, with subjects and pencils and numbers. I’m proud when I get six hours of sleep. I’m not saying that I “get six hours sleep”, like, every night or anything. I don’t know where you even heard that, that’s incredible, what an imagination you have. No, I’ve always felt that I physically REQUIRE six hours of sleep a night to achieve what I’m going to

9:00

Perhaps Jabberwocky.

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2023/04/20

Hey.If you’ve been here for a while (thank you very very very much) you probably know that my hometown is Kansas City. Long before it was cool to wear a Chiefs or Royals cap, I rode the Yankee / Mets gauntlet of the subway proudly sporting my ancestral brands. Ok, I was a 49ers fan for a while back in the day, but everybody was, it was like science fiction - Montana and Rice? and I don’t even follow football… and then Montana went to Kansas City, so it all seemed like kismet.You don’t get to choose

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35. 40.

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2023/04/13

I used to say that I wasn’t a math guy, but I’ve learned that what I’m not is an arithmetic person. It turns out that actually enjoy mathematics. Reaching beyond arithmetic’s addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, mathematics serves as a dynamic modeling science of measurement and pattern.I didn’t actually know the two were different until I looked them up. I’m thinking about numbers a lot because my reunions are coming up. College and high school. I’ve never been to a college reunion,

5:40

My Selectors.

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2023/04/06

I was washing the dishes last week when my daughter danced by. She’s growing, quickly, and every night her bones begin to stretch around suppertime. Her answer to this pain is to defiantly strut through our apartment like it’s a fashion runway, listening to music in her headphones, dancing out the lyrics to the songs, applying the healing miracle of being entirely fabulous. It’s kind of like watching Mick Jagger.I usually watch a tv show while I’m doing the dishes, but the iPad was out of power, so

5:59

Lost And Found

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2023/03/30

So. Have you ever not been able to find something, a tool maybe, a stapler let’s say, and so you just finally end up getting another one, and then you end up finding the first one? Please say yes.Great, whew, well, then this’ll be a fun story.In an effort to live bold, wild and free, I erased 9000 computer files this week. All of them were copies of copies of backups of other copies of files relating to the music I’ve been talking about for the last eleven weeks. In total, it looks like there were

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