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I’m a bit dubious about Independence Day, especially these days. Bo Lozoff described the Bush Administration’s (or, as he calls them, “The Masters of Unsustainability”) careful and deliberate erosion of American (and global) civil liberties (wire tapping, bank records, Guantonimo, etc) with an age-old metaphor. “If you drop a frog into a pot of boiling…

I knocked this one out in no time. I was thinking about this dude in Sioux City, Chase, that I kinda know (via the internet, anyway). Best as I can tell from this fella’s website, he’s a young father of two (one his, one by marriage) wrestling with that tension between growing up, accepting responsibility,…

I began this long holiday break alone thinking of it as a lost weekend. Very, quickly, though, I began to think of it as found. You’ll recall that I was supposed to be scuba diving in Bonaire by now. I’m not complaining. We’re going next week instead. But the sudden scheduling change left me with…

I received an email from a Canadian pen pal last week. It began with a request that I cover Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue” (which I may yet do), and concluded thusly… My Toronto Blue Jays beat your Mets at home today. There’s nothing like just being there as a fan at a ball…

I’m half-way through three books right now, and have cracked the spine on two more. I would tack it up to coincidence, or some sort of Borders/Barnes & Nobles/Amazon harmonic convergence. But you know me: I look for meaning in signs, symbols, and patterns. All of the books are about bands. So it dawned on…

Chris and I pulled into the Richmond Airport Hotel & Convention Center just after midnight. We were bone tired from our full day at the Human Kindness Foundation, not to mention our three hour drive up to Richmond. The shoot (click here to read all about it) was intense; a thousand times more difficult than…