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Queen of Outlaw Music Jessi Colter Returns in Power
FINALLY, the OG Legend and Queen of Outlaw music Jessi Colter returns to the game with her long-awaited new album, Edge of Forever, and the eponymous first single finds Colter at her country-funk, blues-rock, mystical, dazzling Americana best. It’s a…
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Stay Out of the Water, Anne of Green Gables!
With great white sharks the size of polar bears lurking off Prince Edward Island, you’d better hightail it up a cherry tree, all silllllvery in the moonlight, Anne, or maybe walk the ridgepole of Moody’s roof. Your chances of survival…
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NYT Legend Cintra Wilson Gets Her Haggis On in Scotland and In STYLE, Ye Pies
Cintra Wilson is one of our genuine American literary geniuses and a friend of mine, so I love supporting her ever-evolving body of multi-media artistry. Recently, she was whisked away to Scotland for High Wizardly consultations and had a chance…
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Wicked Water Weasels Wound Woman in Wrathful Wrangle!
Don’t you just hate alliteration? I mean, it has its place in satire (in my opinion) but never in straight literature or reporting. Writerly folk, please use it strictly for comic effect (or affectation) if you employ it at all.…
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With or Without Hunchback?
Hey, such things are crucial for me to know. [Look for Jonathan Kieran’s fabulous new—as yet untitled—book of hundreds of witty, cynical, zeitgeist-rocking, and knee-slappingly clever cartoons of Pure Smartassery in 2024! Stay tuned for developing news and previews.] ————-…
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Mt. Athos, The Ultimate Boys Club
This Greek mountainous region (actually a remote aerie/enclave containing dozens of ancient monasteries and caves and hermitages) remains one of the more flat-out mysterious and enduring spaces of human residence on the planet. Its priceless relics, scrolls, libraries, artworks, and…
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How SAFE Is It to Swim in Monterey Bay, You Query?
Great White Sharks or not (and there ARE plenty of those gliding beneath the chop), swimming in most parts of the Monterey Bay—NAY, the entire Pacific Ocean north of Venice Beach!—is not an endeavor for the casual splish-splasher. I say…
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The Waters Off the Nile Delta Continue to Proffer Treasures
In ancient times, the great metropolis of Alexandria at the head of the Nile Delta was not only the most glorious city in all of Egypt, it was one of the most sophisticated and mighty capitals of the entire world—Mediterranean…
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Aloha and Woe! Hearts Broken for Hawaii and Lahaina!
Catastrophe on top of cataclysm strangled by disaster! The once-gorgeous little seaside paradise of Lahaina on the Island of Maui in Hawaii has apparently burned entirely to the ground amid a local, swift-moving wildfire, with some thirty-six people dead and/or…
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Crocodiles Thrill to Sounds of Babies in Distress!
Such is the latest from researchers, as reported by The Independent. For no funding and/or painstaking time spent studying in the jungles and estuaries and exotic rivers of the world whatsoever, I can tell you that untold millions of years…
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