Spitball Army

(photo: spitballarmy.com) I’ll give you one guess why we stopped here and, no, it wasn’t for the ice cubes (aka “turista”).  We heard that Clark Gable was hanging out at a liquor store in Baja, so we went to see for ourselves.  No, really, that’s me. It used to be the easiest thing to hop […]

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With this classmate in mind, I had programmed Mick Jagger’s “Old Habits Die Hard” instead of other possibilities, which could have included ELO’s “Evil Woman” or The Rolling Stones’ “Bitch.”

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I read with interest your recipe for blueberry glace pie, and was wondering if you have ever tried that recipe with any other fruits as the main ingredient?

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If cat Barbara could have ever been named after a particular person, though, her namesake would most likely have been my first grade teacher, SAM (our acronym for Sister Augustine Mary, who later changed her name back to Sister Barbara Mason), who telephoned me on my birthday one year and played “Las Mañanitas” on her trumpet.

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“In a Graveyard” (2001) by Rufus Wainwright

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“Fruit Tree” (1969) by Nick Drake

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“Uncle Freddie” (1993) by The Jerky Boys

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“Calilfornia Bloodlines” (2006) by Dave Alvin

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“Grandmother’s Song” (1977) by Steve Martin

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“Childhood Memories” (1994) by Iris Dement

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