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Author, Don Byas: Sax Expat, University Press of Mississippi; Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges (Oxford U Press); Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good (Equinox UK).
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Boston likes to think of itself as a “world-class city” but try and find a copy of Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” on a Friday night and you’ll find all the philosophy stores close at 11.

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Not sayin' I'm Jules Verne but 16 years ago I anticipated the rise of robot umpires as MLB will use this season in my novel CannaCorn, which fell stillborn from the press, to borrow a line from David Hume. My robo-ump was named Ump2D2, that's him at far right (cover illustration by Sage Stossel).

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I always had my suspicions about the Cincinnati “Reds” and here’s proof they were a Communist front, a Potemkin franchise created to foment revolution in Cuba.

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“Starting March 1st I want everyone in the office three days a week, no more work-from-home.”

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Stay safe out there, a massive red onion is headed south from Canada.

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I actually kind of enjoy shoveling snow. I could watch my wife do it for hours.

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New find by The Gospel Wymics, the best gospel group you’ve never heard of. And no, I don’t know what a “Wymic” is.

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NASCAR Jerry by Con Chapman on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/jaimvarNiiay... My latest, a song about a school bus driver with a lead foot on the gas pedal. With the guys from Beaird Studio in Nashville.

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Today I had to explain to a Nashville studio musician what “bump drafting” means. What the hell are they teaching kids in school these days?

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Two who died too young.

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“You doing anything Saturday night?” “No, why?” “I was thinking of taking in the second shift at Acme Widgetronix—you up for it?” “Uh, I have to organize my sock drawer.”

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Dracula says “I’d rather drink Schaefer Beer than human blood!”

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“Must focus on writing. Don’t check email. No social media . . .”

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For too long the overwhelming majority of witch doctors have been male—it’s high time more women entered the profession.

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