Category: identity
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David + David’s Boomtown is not the kind of cassette you want to have in your pickup truck as you peel out of the gravelly parking lot of some abandoned… more ›
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I cried a tear.You wiped it dry.I was confused.You cleared my mind.I sold my soul.You bought it back for me.And raised me upAnd gave me dignity.Somehow you needed me. Thus… more ›
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I came up with the idea for this latest series a couple of weeks ago when I realized just how many cassettes I have stored away in my living room… more ›
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What can the word “friend” mean after Facebook, where it is really a synonym for “coincidence”? Verlyn Klinkenborg’s recent editorial in the New York Times is necessary brilliance and should… more ›
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“Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanlinessAnd cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me.”–Smashing Pumpkins’ “Zero” I am wholly incapable of describing my g*d for my g*d… more ›
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… twenty-nine years ago, Skylab–the US’s first space station–began its own crash course across the Australian desert. more ›
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By revolving in harmony with all things in nature–with the smallest cells and with the stars in the firmament–the semazen testifies to the existence and the majesty of the Creator,… more ›
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I could login here almost daily and list a dozen or more complaints about bothersome conditions that invade my otherwise placid world, but I’m tired of bitching. Tired of being… more ›
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I’m convinced that such a circle [that is, the unclosable circle of an encounter, which revolves around the undesirable] only exhausts the strength of those who don’t enter into it… more ›
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My popularity has soared over the past several months, while my faith in such things as popularity has plummeted. When I was in high school, I always thought it strange… more ›