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David Sherman
Aug 15, 20244 min read
No, you can't take that away from me
David Sherman In the beginning there were turntables and records -- LPs, 45s, 78s. Sounded great. But they scratched, skipped, but...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 14, 20241 min read
Coming Down From the Mountain
The dead inform the behaviour of the living even when they go early. I don my blue wedding suit and finest manners for the funeral of...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 11, 20249 min read
Yehudi and the Blowhards
Earl Fowler Aug. 15, 1974. That was the edition of the Rolling Stone magazine interview in which classical pianist Glenn Gould, perhaps...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 7, 20242 min read
SOMETHING POPPED UP
Earl Fowler I was going to do a piece on online popup ads and BUY SCOOCHIE! how the avaricious, iniquitous and unscrupulous scavenger...
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David Sherman
Aug 4, 20245 min read
Dear Juan; what happened?
David Sherman Juan Rodriguez made a paella like no other. Recipe inherited from his father. He could turn a phrase like few others. His...
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David Sherman
Aug 3, 20246 min read
Dream camouflages reality's nightmare
David Sherman Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, an “Alternative asset management firm” juggles more than a trillion dollars. He...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 18, 20242 min read
A Long Walker off a Short Pier
Earl Fowler As a sort of thought experiment (now available in Magnavox and Blu-ray, since we here at the Time Isn’t on Our Side Vitality...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 15, 202410 min read
Shing-a-ling said everything
Chapter One says to love her, you love her with all your heart. Chapter Two you tell her, you’re never, never, never, never, never gonna...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 13, 20241 min read
Several Storeys Above Street Level
We are undemanding when young, happy to sit on the fire escape of your building, drink coffee and listen to music. It’s easy in the early...
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David Sherman
Jul 10, 20247 min read
The Man Who Came to Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and ...
David Sherman He wrote to ask me when would be a good time to visit. While I pondered if and when, he wrote he was coming May 26. He’d...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 3, 20246 min read
Not your father’s grandparents
Earl Fowler It’s not a mainstream trend or anything. But it’s not a freaky coincidence either. We are not your father’s grandparents. Or...
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David Sherman
Jun 29, 20246 min read
Takes a town to help you get old
David Sherman It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a small town to foster old farts with aches and pains that match the...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 25, 202411 min read
Today’s Music Ain’t Got The Same Droll
Call me a relic, call me what you will Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill Today’s music ain’t got the same soul I like that old...
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David Sherman
Jun 21, 20244 min read
Ten Commandments Louisiana-style
David Sherman A few years ago, Moses climbed down Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments chiseled in stone. He was undoubtedly winded –...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 18, 20247 min read
Enemies of the People
It is alarming. That we’ve lived here this long, without understanding who are neighbours are, that they turn everything upside down,...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 17, 20244 min read
Age-old question: How do you handle a grumpy man?
Bob Morrissey God, I hate being cranky. I swore I’d grow old gracefully, but it just isn’t happening. I’ve just turned 81, which means...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 14, 20241 min read
Period Piece: A Pensive Walk in Fall
Ecstasy is always just around the corner. I’m all-in Saturday but confined to N.D.G. so I decide to phone her. I tell you I’m buying beer...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 6, 202419 min read
Three Elephants
Earl Fowler Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 3, 202460 min read
MEDITERRANEAN HOMESICK CRUISE
The less tomorrow becomes thinkable, the more license to splurge today: a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish...
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David Sherman
Jun 1, 20244 min read
Living with a remote-control hot seat
David Sherman I’m living with a wonderful woman and one hundred and thirty-eight remote controls. They’re not wonderful. They’re a pain...
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