Be There Then: 2007 in Review

2007, I miss you already. I don’t often do full-scale year-in-review pieces, but I have always enjoyed reading them. In particular, my work-friend Pete’s 2007 in review was particularly striking to me. I liked his idea of top ten moments…

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Be Here Now

People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sounds of Silence I think “Sounds of Silence” may have been about cellphones. There’s been a whole new level of…

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It’s Bad to Be Right

Maybe I should’ve made numeric predictions after all. What’s utterly hilarious to me about the current political situation is how the script of what’s going on ratchets back and forth so quickly. Two weeks ago, this was Hillary’s nomination to…

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Independence

Yesterday was rather surreal, all told, and a good bit volatile as well in the face of some long odds and a decent amount of personal boredom. I am in what I might describe as a sort of fugue state…

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It’s Good to Be Wrong

And now I’m back. From outer space. If by “outer space,” I mean “a cabin in the woods with the Garin Clan.” And I do. As far as Iowa goes, Henry Clay once said “I’d rather be right than President.”…

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Iowa

But way back where I come from we never mean to bother we don’t like to make our passions other people’s concern and we walk in the world of safe people and at night we walk into our houses and…

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Follow Me Down to the Rose Parade

I’ve never been much of an Elliot Smith fan, but I feel like I could really hang out with him today. I mean, not literally. I obviously couldn’t literally hang out with him, because he killed himself. And that’s really…

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Snow Chance

It’s the last day of the year called 2007. I am the last one awake in a cabin at Shaver Lake, California. Most all of the Garin Clan is here, save one component family. It is late, and there are…

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Winter World Tour 2007-2008

As I’ve often been known to say, change is the only constant. This has perhaps never felt more true than this week, which is simply over-brimming with upheaval and possibility. Forget ungainly metaphors about baby steps and windows and doors.…

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