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Crippling Advice For Beginning Writers
You want to write. Perhaps you have a story to tell, or maybe you earned some positive feedback from teachers, friends, and family. Maybe the feeling is more compulsion than desire. Regardless, you have arrived at the decision that you want to write, and you want to know where to begin.
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On Diffuser: 30 Years Ago – Live Aid Unites the Planet
Great Knopfler’s headband, has it really been 30 years?
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223. Are You Sleeping With the Stars Tonight, or are You Blue With Cold?
The ends of things. We rarely enter into anything not labeled “game” with the end in mind. Jobs come and go, but only the most cutthroat among us consider how the end of this gig leads to the next one. The rest of us just stumble along, grateful for the paycheck. We certainly don’t enter…
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On Diffuser: 20 Years Ago: Mike Mills’ Health Scare Adds to R.E.M.’s ‘Monster’ Curse
I was a diehard R.E.M. fan during the IRS years, but my interest waned went they went major label. There’s some great stuff on those Warner era albums, but I simply didn’t follow them like I used to.
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From the Stacks: ‘King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa’
The World of Zappa was immense. The guy was a true musician’s musician, surrounding himself with the best talent: Shuggie Otis, Adrian Belew, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, George Duke, Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio, Flo and Eddie, Lowell George, Captain Beefheart and those are just the names you might recognize. And then there’s Jean-Luc Ponty, the classically…
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On Diffuser: Cover Stories: ‘Weasels Ripped My Flesh’
I’ve never shaved with an electric weasel, but thanks to Frank Zappa and Neon Park I’ll never have to wonder why.
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Choose and Defend: Planes, Trains, or Automobiles?
I fear I’ve tipped my hand with this week’s Choose and Defend. Earlier this week I launched into a musical rant about how much I hate airlines, so you know they aren’t going to get my vote.
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On Diffuser: 19 Years Ago — Soul Coughing Release ‘Irresistible Bliss’
Here’s a weird little article about a weird little record.
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Throw Beck Thursday: We’ll Meet Again: Saying Goodbye To My Mother
—- I am with my mother. She is at the tail end of a neurological disorder with a ten year life expectancy. By her own accounting the first symptoms appeared in 2003. She was diagnosed in 2008 but didn’t tell me until 2011. “Why did you wait so long?” I ask.
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Deep Cuts: Your Airlines Suck Playlist
People, I implore you. What have we allowed to happen to air travel?
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