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...Marine Corps during World War II, surviving the horrors of the fighting on Guadalcanal, slaughtered because some twit driver forgot his dimmer switch. Over the half-century since that night, I've wondered what it might have been like to pronounce the word Dad rather than just write...
...With a few exceptions (like "Lewis Boogie"), Jerry Lee didn't write his own stuff. He made other stuff his own. And though he kept recording and refining his style, it must have galled him that some of his later, minor singles were remakes of songs by his old rivals and traveling companions: Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Yet Lewis was not one to hide; if the gigs paid a few hundred dollars instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show...
...plans to write his Ph.D. about poverty in Mexico, where today about 27 percent of the population lives under the poverty line, according to CIA statistics...
Poor Paul Simon. A few years ago he had the fool idea that a rock composer who wants to make it on Broadway has to go out and actually write new music. He spent years working on his musical The Capeman, only to see it bomb with the critics and at the box office...
...refrigerator space in our office, to bring a jar of mayonnaise to work and then put it on my sandwich at noon rather than putting it on in the morning and letting the sandwich get soggy in my bag. That topic is still too painful for me to write about at length...