For about the time it takes to mow the entire lawn, I worked on my weedtrimmer on a recent afternoon. The last of the original line had spooled out, except for about a foot long piece. I looked forward to replacing the line with child-like anticipation. Because my new weed trimmer had a Speed Spool(TM), which eliminates the tedium […]
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An Evening of Magic: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Chuck Mangione) My brother worked at a radio station and got a copy of this on LP. I wore the grooves off of it. Perhaps one of the good things about the LP format was it encouraged you to listen to the whole thing instead of
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As the woman emerged from the audience today at the funeral, I feared that she would be the first of a line of people which sometimes form at such events. I call this part of a funeral “amateur hour” or “open mic night.” I feared that she would have some wandering, off-the-cuff remarks, and that
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