Mike and Gary

The “against all odds” theme is a useful literary device. It comes with its own built-in dissonances and easy resolves. It’s the minority kid from a broken home, getting his degree in medicine. It’s the diminutive teen bullied because of a speech Impediment who shows up at the school dance with the hottest cheerleader in the squad. Or…

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My First Band

Forward A story about the past is a construct even when pains are taken to be accurate. It’s as real as the future, and that is to say, not very. Reality is an infinitesimally small pinpoint called “now” that is constantly moving ahead, leaving us a step behind. For millennia, it’s been suggested that certain…

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An Old Story

Get ready, folks; I’m about to make another one of those “let’s pretend I’m a genius” generalizations. Context Is Everything No situation, idea, or statement can be understood in isolation. The larger the context, the clearer and less ambiguous the meaning. Chronology is a great tool for giving meaning to events. Timelines are an effective…

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It Wasn’t All Fun And Games

Nobody Can Say I Didn’t Pay My Dues In a post I published last year I made reference to a singer I worked with in the late seventies called The Mighty Pope. I said I would go into more detail later. Later is now. This strangely named dude was a large black man from Jamaica.…

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