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Sunset Intersection: Dear Faithful Readers
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. December 27, 2013. Dear Faithful Readers … both of you,. Like every year I have some lists to post. I don’t want to, but I am required to do so by international conventions, treaties, accords, and my blogger contract. I’ll put them all in one post this time. Hope you don’t get indigestion. Oh, go ahead, eat up. You are more than welcome (what does that mean? Bobby Fischer Against the World. Drag Me to Hell.
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Sunset Intersection: Kurt Vonnegut Letter to Drake School Board
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. April 1, 2012. Kurt Vonnegut Letter to Drake School Board. On the 16th of November, Kurt Vonnegut sent McCarthy the following letter. He didn't receive a reply. November 16, 1973. Dear Mr. McCarthy:. I am writing to you in your capacity as chairman of the Drake School Board. I am among those American writers whose books have been destroyed in the now famous furnace of your school. 7 Write to please just one ...
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Sunset Intersection: The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. March 24, 2014. The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Is none of your East Coast light. Pearly light of Paris. The light of San Francisco. Is a sea light. And the light of fog. Drifting in at night. Through the Golden Gate. To lie on the city at dawn. And then the halcyon late mornings. After the fog burns off. And the sun paints white houses. With Dr. ...
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Sunset Intersection: World's Longest Pun
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. January 5, 2011. M utt: Hey Jeff, you ever hear the one about the Fu Bird? Jeff: Would I want to? Mutt: Oh, it's a great story, if a little long. You might say a tad long-ish, just a tad. But worth it. Definitely. Really. Jeff: I've got a dentist appointment this afternoon, but I'm sure this will be more painful. Rode overland for four days and found themselves in the small town of. In one swoop, the Fu bird...
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Sunset Intersection: The Dead by Susan Mitchell
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. January 12, 2014. The Dead by Susan Mitchell. The Dead by Susan Mitchell. At night the dead come down to the river to drink. They unburden themselves of their fears,. Their worries for us. They take out the old photographs. They pat the lines in our hands and tell our fortunes,. Which are cracked and yellow. Some dead find their way to our houses. They go up to the attics. For signs of their love. With Dr...
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Sunset Intersection: Cults and Creeds, Tumults and Greeds, part 1
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. October 23, 2010. Cults and Creeds, Tumults and Greeds, part 1. The problem—our need to believe while remaining open to better beliefs and what lies beyond belief altogether—must be resolved existentially, through living it … (Huston Smith). Breaking News: Jesus made the San Francisco Giants win the National League pennant! Or are the enemies praying harder to. Did you take the religious knowledge quiz?
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Sunset Intersection: Mutt and Jeff to the Rescue
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. April 25, 2014. Mutt and Jeff to the Rescue. Mutt: Think the boss's unwell? Cuz he ain't written his stupid blog in a while? Mutt: Like a hella long while. Oowah! Jeff: An embarrassing long while. Mutt: Maybe he's super-busy with some super-important project. Jeff: Maybe he's just a super-lazy slacker. A gold-bricker. Layin' down on the job. Jeff: And just who is Confusedest? Mutt: As Peewee Herman would say.
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Sunset Intersection: Curmudgeon’s Joy
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. October 5, 2011. Ranting can be a true source of enjoyment and self-entertainment (you thought I wrote this blog for the readers? My mother used to call it, ‘getting on your soapbox’, and I never miss a chance. After ringing phones, what other pet peeves can I go on and on ad nauseam about? What is the point of fireworks? I was flying from Johannesburg to Rio de Janeiro, and the pilot announced we’d be...
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Sunset Intersection: The Bush League Defense
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. September 24, 2010. The Bush League Defense. In case you need a good cry, I found this list on a site about presidential jokes:. George W. Bush Resume. Ran for congress and lost. Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie (The Hitcher). Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after all Bush stock sold. With father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
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Sunset Intersection: Not the Last Lists of 2014
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To visit Martin's songwriting website, press here. To visit Martin's writing website, press here. December 31, 2014. Not the Last Lists of 2014. When I was a little kid, my mother read me stories from the Shirley Temple fairy tale book. There was a picture on the back of her with her son. She was the same age as my Mom, similar looking. I confused the two in my day-dreams; I wanted to be myself and the son of Shirley Temple, Miss Bright Eyes grown up to be perfect. Arthur ‘Guitar Boogie’ Smith. Doctors t...
