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As I Was Saying...
http://iwassaying.net
- Author: Pete
- Listed in: Personal Observational Humor
- Tags: family books music boomer parenting society
- Added on: Feb 10th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Personal essays and ruminations on wide-ranging topics.
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Standing in the Penumbra of Celebrity
I’ve written before about The Grateful Dads, the quartet in which I sing lead. Once every summer we sing the National Anthem at a Sea Dogs game. The Sea Dogs, our local AA baseball team, are affiliated with the Boston Red Sox and part and parce...
The Sunny Side of Surveillance
NOTICE: “Sigh,” as Charlie Brown would say. Here we go again with another disclaimer. It’s just a darn shame that we live in a world where a piece like this one has to be labeled explicitly as satire. Two weeks ago, I might not have...
Leaving New York
I’ve finally calmed down enough to write this story. On July 1st we drove down to NYC to help Elizabeth pack up her stuff and move back to New England. The trip was a pretty typical New York horror story, and an expensive one at that, although ...
You Can Run But You Can’t Hide
From poverty, that is. Throughout most of my adult life, I’ve had to rediscover periodically the extent to which people who have had no direct connection to poverty simply don’t get it.. Over the weekend, I spent a lot of time with an old...
Two Kinds of Musical Minds
I’ll confess it up front. This post will bore most people to the point of unconsciousness, because it’s about music at a pretty technical level. Those who are not bored will, I think, have one of two immediate responses—either “Wh...
