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jefferyjrahn.bsky.social
writer poetry and prose
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@audacityofdespair.bsky.social I always liked Bill Murray’s readings. As a native Chicagoan, Blackhawk and Cub fan he speaks to me. i thought you might enjoy this reading. Thank you for your journalism and storytelling, as well. youtu.be/qxId8MXtPU0?...

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@audacityofdespair.bsky.social Chicagoans are notorious for taking a jab at someone they don’t like. My tall ( 6’ 5” 210 ) father, John S. Rahn ,might playfully ask about a certain someone: “ What’s happening wit Taco” ? It’s kinda of funny because our Mom & Dad moved to Tucson in 1982. They loved

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"He could cook and he could smoke and he liked liquor and women and everything that is good in life. He was a wonderful terre-à-terre man. That's why I liked him. If he would not have been a sinner I couldn't have loved him so much as I do now." Gilles Quispel, Remembering Jung

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“No, I won't condemn anyone for putting ketchup on a hot dog. This is the land of the free. And if someone wants to put ketchup on a hot dog and actually eat the awful thing, that is their right. It is also their right to put mayo or chocolate syrup or toenail clippings or cat hair on a hot dog.

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A southsider only 1-2 yrs older than, I…. i grew up with many many catlicks in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. I hope he is a unionifer. You would think given his early childhood in Chicago he would have a sensitivity to Civil Rights and the writings of Mike Royko. I hope he is the antithesis of DT.

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Listened to the @npr.org Code Switch podcast interview with @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social and just had to get his new book! Excited to read this

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