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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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Add Johnny Cash to the list of Musicians Named Johnny Who Owned Monkeys. Johnny Hodges is another.

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The math checks out.

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Where are they now? The child of Bigfoot and his socialite love slave should be graduating from college this year!

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For lovers of American history, Massachusetts is a “bucket list” destination. Here is the nation’s first ATM, where Myles Standish withdrew $60 for his aborted date with Priscilla Mullins.

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Somehow the French language makes even a wax toilet bowl gasket sound romantic.

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spectator.org/trump-v-harv... My animadversion on Trump v. Harvard.

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Great. Boston is getting a “New Age” sports bar. Looking forward to grabbing a few brewskis and watching the Women’s Professional Ultimate Frisbee League Game of the Week.

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St. Bernard helps the devil tone and firm his “turkey neck” with a high-resistance exercise band.

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Surprised to see that Thomas Hart Benton, known for Midwestern Gothic images, also painted “The Twist Dancers.” Dig that bongo, Daddy-O!

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Not saying my job’s boring but I’m looking forward to our annual building evacuation drill today.

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Every time I start to feel cocky about my legal career, I remind myself that I was once fired by a pro bono client who wore a monkey on his head.

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My love of the Greek classics finally came in handy.

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As someone who grew up near the site of a Jesse James train robbery, I approve this message.

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“Volvos are the safest cars on the road!” “Tell that to the bears.”

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Anti Rag-Time Girl did her part to prevent an outbreak of syncopation—did you?

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When Sparky my Komodo Dragon complained to me about the poor public image his species suffers from, I told him I'd do something about it. "Me 'n My Komodo Dragon" is out today, and I hope it gets folks to open their hearts and minds to these much-maligned lizards. Only 99 cents, and almost worth it.

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As a long-time Pee-wee Herman fan I watched the HBO documentary with both joy & sadness. It has 2 valuable lessons for those of us who dream of hosting a kids’ show: 1. Remain in control, don’t let anyone hijack your artistic vision. 2. Don’t do in an adult movie theater what you can do at home.

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Maybe it’s because I had a tough week at work, maybe just too much “doom scrolling” through social media, but I truly believe what America needs right now is a religious revival and a return to traditional values. By the rest of you jamokes, not me.

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There’s a new edition of Dead Writers Make More Money out today, recounting my encounters with the Bigfeet of Literature, from first-hand (my lunch with Saul Bellow—sort of) to more, as Faulkner would say, attenuated; I know a guy who stood in line behind John Updike at the dry cleaner. 99 cents.

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My first AI-generated image, for the cover of my next book "Komodo Dragons, Mon Amour: The Lighter Side of the World's Deadliest Lizards."

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“It’s not a pet, it’s my emotional support kangaroo.”

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Wish me/him luck: My singing mime character “Felipe” has an audition today with the John Cage Big Band.

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Don’t like to throw my copyright weight around, so having dropped both the Statute of Anne and the Worshipful Company of Stationers before 8 p.m. I think I’ll knock off for the night.

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