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      • September 2016: TYLER KEITH AND THE APOSTLES–DO IT FOR JOHNNY! If ya got any guts!
      • Past Pupil Stay Sane…I’m Struggling My Damn Self.
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    • Aram Bajakian’s DALAVA: THE BOOK OF TRANSFIGURATIONS
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    • A Sample Review of Jinx Lennon’s PAST PUPIL STAY SANE
    • Seeds Scattered Elsewhere (Sugarbuzz, The Stash Dauber, Columbia Tribune, The Village Voice)
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      • Neil Young Ruined My Life Part 1
        • Neil Young Ruined My Life Part 2
    • Wussy / Sinatra Attack
    • Southern-Fried Listening Journal, Spring 2014
      • New Orleans, August 2014
    • 5,000 Miles Away from Home–A Northwest Road-Trip Journal
    • A Memory Stirred by Carl Wilson’s Celine Dion 33 1/3 Book
    • Top 10 Great Music-Related Things That Happened to Me This Week – August 16, 2014
    • Hot Day in Velma
      • 2,119-Mile Texas Trip
    • The Violence of Chuck Berry
    • Jeffrey Lewis Masterpiece: Scowling Crackhead Ian
    • Gud’by to Mark E.
    • E-Street Bland, Live at Kiel, ’99
    • Fifteen Records from My Teens
    • If You Were in The World’s Greatest Record Store, and You Had Enough Money for One Record
    • Now I Got a Reason–How I Got Hooked on Rock and Roll
    • Paisley Parking
    • Yellow Brick Road Trips
    • I Can’t Help It (Little Richard Attack)
    • E-Street Bland, Live at Kiel, ’99
    • My Imaginary Top 100 Ballot Submitted to Rolling Stone for its “500 Greatest Albums of the Rock and Roll Era”
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      • The Academy of Rock: A Brief History
      • When The Pierced Arrows Brought It to The Kids
      • Folk-Funk Comes to Hickman: Bobby Rush–VERY LIVE!
      • Midwest Lo-Fi Psycho-delic Attack: A review of Woody Records’ artist sampler CD by Mackenzie Thomas
    • How I Decided to Become a Teacher
    • I Recommend an All-Time Desert Island Top 20 (plus a 50-item appendix to prove I am not an old fart) to a Class of 12th Graders
    • “Mr. Diaz, Can I Turn This in Late, Please?”: A Life Soundtrack Assignment Completed for Gits and Shiggles for a Former Comrade
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      • Kicking My Legs (Dylan Style)
      • Tierra Whack / Sophie: Socratic Seminar College Girls Gone Critically Wild
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      • Ah: The Teacher Has Become the Student
      • Teachers: Write Your Own Model Essays!
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    • The Atheist Confronts A LOVE SUPREME
    • The Wrong Notes (A poem Thelonious Monk caused)
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