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Music Video Monday: Violins and cellos gone wild

Classical music can be a wonderful sleep aid. HOWEVER: These people show that you don’t need a guitar loud enough to shatter boulders. No. All you need is a violin (or a cello, whatever that is) and a whole bunch … Continue reading

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Is this high-brow poetry — or pretentious garbage?

Poets are crazy. This much I have learned. Take a look at this man, who was apparently a famous poet. In my endless quest for the truth, I have discovered more Gertrude Stein-esque free verse. I did so after writing … Continue reading

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Gertrude Stein is a literary TRAIN WRECK

I know the name Gertrude Stein, and understand that she is some kind of Giant of Literature. (It’s pronounced “lit-rah-SURE, by the way, if you want to be all snobby and lame.) HOWEVER: For the first time, I’ve read actual … Continue reading

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Writing secret: Light as air, strong as whiskey, cheap as dirt

Those nine words are magic. And those words help sell 5.842 gazillion miles of barbed wire back in the late 1800s, when the West was still wild and there weren’t handy trees or stones to make fences. Light as air, … Continue reading

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