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Happy trails

On my way through Lakeland a few weeks ago, I got behind the rental car I rode to Chicago in back in very late December. It really threw me to just randomly be riding in traffic behind the very same car that had been my road home for a few days. I mean, how many rental cars are on the road in Memphis at any given second? But I know that was the right car.…

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Sunday soundcheck*

Sunday morning in Memphis. Old School Freight Train is on the iTunes, water is on the stove boiling for coffee, and biscuits are waiting to be put in the oven. Yes, they’re frozen but they deserve respect because they will be delicious. The AC is earning its keep up above me. It’s a trip having your own central air. You Midtown people know what I’m talking about, I’m sure. That quiet chilly breath on your…

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‘Can you hear the sound of hours blowing away?’

I am out of the huge Superdrag phase I was in once upon a time, but every now and again a Superdrag song comes on the shuffle and just makes me say cuss words. As in, “Fuck. This is a great song.”

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Today’s uke-and-trumpet pause