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Don’t Panic — But Happy Towel Day!
May 25, as of course you already know, is celebrated worldwide as Towel Day*. Whatever you do, do not forget your towel today. If you cannot be properly entoweled, you might consider alternatives…...
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Holiday Traditions: “The Christmas Date”
[Scene from A Christmas Story. The Peking duck no longer smiles at the Old Man.] In 1993, The then Missus-Eventually-To-Be and I went on our first one of these, and we’ve done so every December 23rd...
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(Belated, But Timely) Midweek Music Break: Fifes and Drums
It can be hard to take the music of fifes and drums seriously. Unlike Sousa marches, which I wrote of last year at this time, these marches have never had one single person’s name — a pop-culture...
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An E-Publishing Experiment (2): Short Holiday Reading for Under a Buck
Moving right along… So I’ve had a short story for sale for a week so far, as described in this post. (The book itself can be found on Amazon.com; that’s the Amazon US link, although it’s also available...
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Winter’s First Week
A bit of a changeup from the usual Friday routine here. Let’s start with a couple of things not from whiskey river (because, well, why not)… ...a song for winter PlayStop Popout X …and: Christmas...
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Red, White, Blue: A Holiday Fiction
Red. The President emerged from his private Oval Office bathroom, rubbing his hands together. It didn’t help right away; they dripped on the carpet. Not his problem, though. He had people, after all —...
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The Fourth, Revisited
Those of you who haven’t visited the site much probably won’t know about my two “big” Independence Day posts. I thought I’d reprise them today: The first, from 2008, appeared just a few months after...
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Within the Darkness, the Close and the Holy
[Image: “Guitarball (Holiday Linux Joke),” by John E. Simpson; #814 (December 19, 2019) in my #everydaybandw series. (Shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page...
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