Showing posts with label Bruce Springsteen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bruce Springsteen. Show all posts
Monday, September 12, 2016

A random post on Pitt-Penn State with nods to Dave, Bruce, Dylan, Quinn and the guy who robbed the bank to end his marriage

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I try to avoid taking topic requests because the result always comes across as forced, stilted. I’m making an exception today becaus...
Monday, January 4, 2016

9th graders learn who's better: Stones or Beatles

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(972 words) My daughters know not to ask Daddy any homework questions involving subjects like algebra or biology. I just don’t get...
Friday, May 30, 2014

RIP Maya Angelou & the world's greatest poem

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(991 words) I made a joke to my buddies when the news came on that Maya Angelou, 86, had died. I said, “Is she the one who wrote the p...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Re-run: Enough already! Awash in staples

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From 2009. I'm almost four years older and I'll bet I've used maybe 40 of the staples from the 5,000 pack that inspired t...
Monday, October 29, 2012

The Springsteen show & when music still matters

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(734 words) I confess to spending a good deal of my time at the Bruce Springsteen show in Pittsburgh Saturday wishing I could turn a 5...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Who pulled plug on Springsteen & McCartney? Was it Mitt?

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We don’t know the identity of the scoundrel who pulled the plug on Sunday’s historic Bruce Springsteen/Paul McCartney Hyde Park performance,...