Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before*
Sean MurphyLet me tell you a story. It involves a white male born in a steadily...
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How unbelievably appropriate that Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980? In virtually every...
My Annual New Year’s Eve Message
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2014: Time To Die, Part Two
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2014: Time To Die, Part One
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We have lost one of the great, indeed one of the greatest, ones. Yusef Lateef,...
The Narrow Path: A Tone Poem for Christmas
You are alone. You are back in the city and you are alone as you...
My Kind of Christmas Music (Revisited)
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex (In Fiction)
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