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Brad Bigelow, writer in Missoula, MT
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts (Jan 2026)
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path.
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I love this film not just because Graham Parker and the Rumour is a lifelong favorite band but because it shows in such a human way that there are many different ways to create a second act for your life if you stumble into early success.
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I wish we knew more about her motivations. Unless something turns up, it appears that most of her papers were lost when her flat was bombed in October 1940. What impresses me is that she never played it safe in her choice of subjects and styles.
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Thanks for watching it. I hope you find my enthusiasm is justified.
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Bright, who worked for almost 40 years as a nurse, later wrote a moving account of the women and staff of a London cancer ward, The Day's End (1959).
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My friend said his father had never spoken to him about the landing or anything else about the war. But he sat with the two vets in the museum lobby and talked for over an hour, holding hands, comforting each other. And afterwards, he refused to discuss their conversation with his son.
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A friend of mine, a British Navy captain, took his father, who'd also been a landing craft pilot, to the National D-Day Memorial in VA. The staff normally announce when a D-Day vet arrives, and two US vets there came out to greet him. Within a few minutes, the three men were hugging and weeping. +
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I have four of different widths and sizes from Darby Home and have been pleased with the quality of their construction and looks. Often on sale from Wayfair.
www.birchlane.com/furniture/sb...
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Not sure I like the thought of Kyleness reaching critical mass.
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Thanks. And a Three Sounds cover! I'm nuts about 1960s soul/jazz piano trios.
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The premise of "Safety in Numbers" is that Buddy Rogers's uncle catches him leading employees in a musical number, so he sends the lad to Manhattan to be mentored by three chorus girls. As the above number demonstrates...well, I'm not sure what, other than the movie's utter goofiness.
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Oh, sorry, I see what you meant now. No, that was my inability to remember which capital is capital.
Gore also wrote several miscellanies under the pseudonym of Albany Poyntz that are good for a chuckle or two.
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What can I say: birds of the same brilliant musical tastes flock together. The Red Garland cover is new to me and I am off to get it now.... Thanks.
Say hi to Irwin Chusid, a friend from my spaceagepop.com days.
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I write my website posts in an ASCII editor with no predictive capabilities, so if there's any US-centric spelling, it's mine.
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This looks and sounds like it belongs on www.programme4.tv/broadcast
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For a moment I thought this was a riff on "Hot Shot City," but I guess that's expecting an unhealthy level of low culture.
youtu.be/lRHDXfwT40s?...
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Time can be as tough as miles, particularly if you have to worry about winters and road salt. Things like rubber boots dry out and crack. I had to replace those accordion-looking thngs on the inside of the wheels (they shield the CV joint) with both Civic and CR-V, for example.
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Yep. And a lot of good Samaritanship, too. The Church of Our Lady of Keeping the Beater Running.
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No, this is just the only photo of a guy working on a car in an auto parts store I could find. I mostly had Hondas and Subarus. But after 150,000 miles, they're all unpredictable.
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Surface noise is the sound of freedom. People who insist on mint pressings have souls the size of shriveled walnuts.
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I am happy to be past the point where I had to travel with a bundle of tools and spare parts in my trunk. I was glad that I knew enough to deal with most problems, but a solid low mileage reliable car is one luxury I have earned.
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Makes you wonder if there are other special skills that some people can sniff out. "Excuse me, can you tell me how to tie a sheepshank knot?"
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My kids can testify that I've never known where it's at.
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Augie and one of his girlfriends spend time in Mexico. In the 1930s, after Chicago, before the war and his time in the merchant marine. It's not what most people would associate with the book though — an episode, not the centerpiece.
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Naw, what are the chances they'll be able to find you again? Let your conscience run clean, man. God meant for them to be lost.
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Maybe they really want to ask you what a variable is, but figure directions are safer.
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Well, yes, but then many French people give off strong "don't even think of asking for directions!" vibes.
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Did we miss a calling to be tour guides?
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If we were geese, you know where they'd stick us.
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It's a mystery to me. Why do I give that impression when walking down the street and yet put me in a party with a glass of wine in my hand and I might as well be invisible? Hello? I clearly know where the drinks are!
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I was walking around Gdansk once when I was stopped and asked in Polish for directions. Right next to me was an older woman carrying a bag of groceries who just stared in disbelief. I was flattered, but in the end, she was the one who had the answer. Maybe we just give off good approachability vibes
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Hah! Actually, I stick out here in Montana as one of the few men not wearing a hat. 25 years in the Air Force more than met my hat-wearing desires.
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His first novel, Snakes, is about a bass (maybe guitar?) player, too.
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I ran into Al Young one time at the Tower Records store in Mountain View, CA. We were both whiling away a Friday night shopping for records, he helping a friend spend a gift certificate. I told him I loved Bodies and Soul, his first collection, and we compared our choices. A quarter hour in heaven.
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I grumble, but I'll keep on doing what I'm doing. I'm too cheap and impatient to take up golf.