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To Boldly Go Where No Boy Has Gone Before
“I’m in the middle, without any plans,” Alice Cooper sings, “I’m a boy and I’m a man.” Late summer of 1978, I was 18, still living at home with the Family Project and working nights at Tonka Toys. And...
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You Can Have the Town
“Saw her walking thru the crystal court/she made a scene by the revolving doors…” —The Hold Steady, “Party Pit” We motored into Navarre, Minn., in our blue-green Chevy station wagon one snowy, cold...
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Baby Bright Star
There is a Family Project legend that—left untold—might just die with me. I’m not even sure if my brother knows about it. Or for that matter my Aunt Joyce, who was likely there when it happened. Dad...
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You Were My Book (Part 2)
[Last of a two-part post.] The Book can’t talk back. It only interacts with the mind. So the mind (Silly Billy that it is) imagines: This is a relationship! Of course it’s no such thing. As the Book...
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