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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Duck and Cover #813

Read Duck and Cover at the Blue Pyramid. NOTE: New D&C’s will be back December 26th.