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What my sixty (plus) years have taught me
I’ll be turning 60 in a few days, one of those taking-stock milestones that come around every decade, so as my body and my mind edge into decrepitude (well, edge further into decrepitude, anyway), I made a little list.
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Huck Finn and Hamlet
Originally published here in April 2016, and by far the most popular post I’ve ever written, with over 1,500 hits upon its first appearance. Go figure.
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Drunk, stoned, brilliant, and still dead
A few words on “National Lampoon” magazine and satire in general, with an excerpt of “The Vietnamese Baby Book.”
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A walk through the city
“Philadelphia is a town with a low tolerance for bullshit and a whole lotta heart.”
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The Hunkas of Fairmount Avenue
One family’s history in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia.
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As bad as we say it is
When in the early 1970s the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce needed a slogan to promote the city to businesses and tourists, the best it could come up with was “Philadelphia isn’t as bad as Philadelphians say it is.” It’s hard to say exactly what the Chamber of Commerce expected as a result.
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The Mighty Millborough
A few more items from the cupboard, these concerning cartoonist Christoph Mueller and published here a few years ago.
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The illustrious R. Crumb
I’m still going through the boxes in this blog’s attic and came across this review of a 2019 R. Crumb exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery.
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Durham dispatch
The uniformed representative of the United States Postal Service slipped the latest issue of Mineshaft magazine under my door a few weeks ago, and for that I am grateful.
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Philadelphia: The saving grace of modesty
Nobody put the differences between New York and Philadelphia best than the City of Brotherly Love’s essayist Agnes Repplier. Though she described these sentiments over a century ago, I can still recognize their validity as I walk that city’s streets today.