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THE MARRIAGE TRIP LOSER: DON’T DO THAT

October 8, 2023 by

A marriage trip can go any number of ways, including off the tracks. My wife once got a phone call from an old flame recently divorced saying they were passing through and wanted to catch up. Seems innocent enough? One thing led to another until I went negative full-jerk. Why? Because I know things about […]

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YOUR LAND, MY LAND, OUR LAND

August 3, 2023 by

Your land is more than the surface under your feet. Go ahead and put ‘No Trespassing’ signs everywhere on a plot of dirt, but it’s still not enough. Why? Because it’s not your land, or my land, but our land. Here’s how I figured it out:

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HOPPER PAINTINGS: “YOU’VE BEEN HOPPERED”

February 24, 2023 by

Hopper paintings have turned into Bruuuce. I love both of them, but I might be done. Toooo depressing. Tooo raw. Too much of so little. To them I must bid adieu, au revoir, so long, goodbye. But first a few questions:

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: NO NOBEL LIKE A NEW JERSEY NOBEL

March 17, 2017 by

    Bruce Springsteen a future Nobel Laureate? If Bob Dylan wins a Nobel Prize for Literature, why wouldn’t the man once called ‘The Next Bob Dylan?’ Along with lyrics that dare challenge the scope of epic rock and rollers of the past, Gilgamesh, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, The Boss and his body of work stand […]

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HOW BROKEN HEARTS STAND

October 24, 2016 by

Future Nobel Prize winner Bruuuuce nails broken hearts. Badlands, you gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you’ve gotta pay Broken hearts happen all the time. Hearts break next to you and you don’t hear a thing. Bruce Springsteen sang about broken hearts in Badlands. It fit the song, […]

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE SACRED SIX PACK

October 18, 2016 by

Did Bruce Springsteen grow artistically from bad parenting? Here’s the real question: Did growing up with a dad who smoked ’em when he had ’em, and worked a six pack in the dark, make Bruce Springsteen who is today? His old man was hooked on Camels, or Marlboro’s, or Winstons,  and liked to cool them […]

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BRUCE: THE BOOMER BOSS @ 65

September 23, 2014 by

I was twenty years old 1n 1975 and living in South Philadelphia just over the border from New Jersey. A neighborhood woman named Mary Ann said she’s going to a Bruce Show, that I ought to go along. It wasn’t a date idea as much as it was a right of passage. A Jersey comet […]

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