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UGH THIS IS SO GOOD IT IS ALWAYS SO GOOD

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I can live with regret and hope, but not with mindless October. So I also need to put on a sweater and walk. Thank you Helena for making me remember that Fall and future are possibilities. Keen

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"he most recent subscriber-only essay was one of my favorites, if I can say that about my own post, so I particularly recommend it right now."

It was a fantastic piece. I am still holding out for the 10,000 word exegesis on green, though.

"putting the twelve-foot skeleton up in the front yard."

Or the foot-high animatronic talkin' fuckin' rat. Complete kitsch trash, totally useless in all ways, utter waste of money, completely stupid and absolutely hilarious. (Billy Bass this, man.)

"is like when one verse (1:20) on one track on one album is so good that I play the whole thing over and over just to get the forty-five second high in the middle of it."

I have one of those: https://youtu.be/lG3KbhXPX3E

First two stanzas right at the beginning:

He's got a road map of Jupiter

A radar fix on the stars

All along the highway

She's got a liquid-crystal compass

A picture book of the rivers

...

Under the Sahara

Nicely done!

elm

off to catch up to catch up

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