They're not but their music is forever
David Sherman When life was young, it was about music. As life-affirming as the air it blew in on -- from the radio, the stereo –...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 17, 20234 min read
Grave Old World
’Cause she’s so high High above me, she’s so lovely She’s so high Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah She’s so high...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 12, 202315 min read
¡AI, caramba! Reality chills as Reality Bites meets The Big Chill
Earl Fowler To mark the 40th anniversary of the movie The Big Chill — which hit theatres on Sept. 28, 1983 — I did a piece for this blog...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 7, 20233 min read
Seven signs you may already be a search engine senior
Earl Fowler 1) You start out googling something in good faith. Want to know, for example, who that actress or singer or whatever she is,...
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Earl Fowler
Sep 1, 20232 min read
It’s not the Heat, It’s the Fluidity
Earl Fowler They’re ba-a-a-a-c-k! And front! And back again! Seventy years later, the sound of fifties vocal sensation the 5 Neat Guys...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 30, 20231 min read
Questions for the Old Fart Angels
Earl Fowler Is Tug McGraw starting for the Mets? How many times a day do you think Mitch McConnell eats Cool Whip sandwiches or … um …...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 26, 20238 min read
Paul Simon in Seventh Heaven
Children! get ready It’s time to come home — Paul Simon, Wait Earl Fowler People, get ready. There’s some math a-comin’. Not the new...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 23, 20231 min read
Vlad all over
Earl Fowler Plane crashes, poisonings, defenestrations, mines, drones and missiles, invasions of nations, brown paper packages tied up...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 22, 20231 min read
Fat Bottomed Girls Make the Rockin’ World Go Round
Earl Fowler You might have noticed that the song “Fat Bottomed Girls,” a celebration of women of breadth who take our breath away, has...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 19, 20231 min read
From K-Tel Records: 20 Electrifying Hits, 20 Original Self-Lovin’ Senior Breakup Songs for When ...
… the Pump Don’t Work ’Cause Time’s Vandals Took the Handle Earl Fowler Medley: All By Myself / Alone Again (Unnaturally) Too Fat Polka...
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Earl Fowler
Aug 11, 202348 min read
Jean-Paul Sartre meets Bertie Wooster
Of all those who start out in philosophy — not those who take it up for the sake of getting educated when they are young and then drop...
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David Sherman
Jul 31, 20235 min read
More and more and more and more ...
David Sherman Über genius X, formerly known as loud-mouth Elon Musk, had his stock-market darling Tesla designed to deceive drivers into...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 24, 20237 min read
Mick at 80: Cold English blood still runs hot
Earl Fowler The thing that simultaneously gives me chills and leaves my cockles coming in colours everywhere — what with Sir Mick Jagger...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 16, 20233 min read
Tickle Trunk Tragedy
EARL FOWLER The Canadian Press HORNBY ISLAND, B.C. — A onetime colleague has been arrested in connection with the death of Canada’s first...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 11, 20232 min read
After the smoke clears
Hyman Weisbord ST. HIPPOLYTE — Hi There. I don’t know the physics of it, but two days of rain have given us relief from the smoke in the...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 11, 20232 min read
Fish Song
Frank Mackey Wherein Coelecanth Botemfieder coaxes his son to leave the lagoon, crawl up on land, evolve, you know, be a man If only fish...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 2, 20232 min read
Independence Day 2023 Part II: Pro Patria
Earl Fowler It is patriotic to be stupid. It is patriotic to know only one language. It is patriotic to know a little about your own...
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Earl Fowler
Jul 1, 20231 min read
Independence Day 2023: The Limerick
Earl Fowler Apologies in advance, but to comply with Alliance Defending Freedom dictums and Moms for Liberty fiats to which six of nine...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 21, 20239 min read
You must be joking
Earl Fowler Practical jokes — especially the ones that unfold organically, without any intention or planning — are one of the key...
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Earl Fowler
Jun 20, 20232 min read
My baby just wrote me a letter
Bob Morrissey Several days after leaving (Emily), I emailed Mary before checking out of the (Heartbreak Hotel) where I was (drowning in...
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