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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Preface To A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2012: Nipping At Your Nose

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I have no idea why I like Christmas music so much.  I don't celebrate the holiday (except on the radio). I was thinking the other day th...
Friday, December 21, 2012

The Curse Of The Curse Word Curator

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This is weird - the great linguist Hugh Rawson doesn't have a Wikipedia entry.  He does have a page on the Huffington Post but that see...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

End Of The World!

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Human beings have a terrible track record with predicting the end of the world.   Take a look. Is it wrong that I like the phrase "he...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Almost 1500

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A special blog post on a non-blog-posting day to say: hooray!  I've almost reached 1500 posts on this silly blog! If you'll recall...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Here's What's Favorites

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Do I have to stress that this is not a "best of"?  I'm apparently not in tune with the world of musical criticism, & as...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Whither Gary's Favorite Music 2012

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The year-end lists are starting!  The end of the year is at hand! Here's a list from the New York Times!  None of these records will ...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Preface To Gary's Favorite Music 2012: At Last! The Show About Lips Posted!

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Sorry this show has been posted so late!  What?  No one noticed?  Oh well. Here's last Monday's show about lips.  No kissing or...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Newtown, Connecticut

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Words fail.
Thursday, December 13, 2012

What A Week This Was

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Hey, I just checked my probably-not-reliable Google Analytics, which tells me the number of times I visit my own blog (&, if there are o...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Whither Lips?

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Are you a fan of kissing?  I should hope so!  Kissing is generally performed with the lips.  This much is true.  In fact, Wikipedia (to whom...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Preface To Lips: Read Mine

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I have been reading, lately, (at the advice of the the Word Detective ) Hugh Rawson's Dictionary Of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk ,...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Where To Put The Quote.

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Quote quoted at me from (possibly genius but scary in perverted Lolita manner) Nabokov (the book called I think Pale Fire ) a poem which goe...
Thursday, December 06, 2012

Useless Explanations

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(Noises of things being shuffled around in an attempt to delay or if possible postpone.) Well. No one's here so it's as good a t...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Worry Not!

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Don't worry, be happy I didn't play that song on my show about worry. Otherwise, worry.  There's every reason to.  Perhaps ...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

Whither Worry?

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Please hurry, hurry, hurry! We've got no time for worry! Because your eyes get blurry when you worry, worry, worry! At dinner we...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Preface To Worry: It Takes A Worried Person

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Thirteen years ago - it was another century - I happened into a men's room in an unfamiliar building at the University of Texas at Austi...
Friday, November 30, 2012

The Gag Writer

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Did anyone call for a gag writer?  There's a gag writer at the door. He's a nervous chap, with a crooked smile, & he's hol...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Gasp! First Ever Blog Post Written On My Phone!

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It comes as no surprise that I am somewhat behind in technological advances - I still don't know what Instagram is - so as I was sitting...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Another Birthday Down The Drain

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Hey people!  Do you have a person with whom you're madly in love?  Also, do you have a radio show?  If so, one way to celebrate that ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Whither Magda's Birthday 2012?

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Let's get the important stuff out of the way: there is a woman named Magda, whom I married (although it might be more appropriate to say...