May 2012
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womanhouse asked: JNCO jeans, personalized license plates, maslow's hierarchy of needs, recumbent bikes, musicians turned actors, actors turned musicians, clarinet music in popular culture, your future epitaph.
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Longest-lived, currently active cultural...
This American Life (~17 years)
In the end, nothing else comes close. I’ve listened to This American Life almost every week since I was 16 years old. Not only listened, but for many of those years, obsessed. It’s followed me across a half-dozen formats. I used to tune in Saturday nights at 11 p.m. on 89.3 WFPL on my little radio alarm clock back at my parents’ house my junior...
louise-louise asked: Part four of four. What happened to it? I want part four.
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Anonymous asked: Hey Southie! Is there a midwestern equivalent to "Pacific Ocean Blue," the surprisingly evocative and heartfelt 1977 album by generally underappreciated Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, that many feel is the quintessential elegy to a vanishing epoch? Just wondering....
Promptin'.
In a sad attempt to drum up some activity around South 12th, I now fling the door open for writing prompts from you, the readers. Fire away. What do you want to hear about? What do you want to know about? I am framing this as a “submit a writing prompt” exercise instead of an “ask me anything” exercise, because I am not eager to answer questions related to my troubled...
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Anonymous asked: What is your opinion of Cooper Black? This font that looks pretty similar to Windsor to my eye, and appears to have been a staple of a similar vintage.
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Good names for '90s movie presidents.
Smutty comedies, student films, and made-for-TV movies.
John Fitzgerald Robertson
Henry “Jack” Lester
Charles “Kip” Baldwin
Jack Clemens “Cowboy” Coburn
Ford “Ace” Hobson, Jr.
Douglas “Skip” Hobson, Jr.
Mid-budget, highbrow political allegories starring Kurt Fuller or James Rebhorn as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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