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No text messages

And no Tweets to be found here

Ah, the good old days

The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume I) by Hunter S. Thompson (661 pp.)

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An unsung hero

A giant by all measures

And good with a pen

I Am the Blues by Willie Dixon with Don Snowden (258 pp.)

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The road is rocky
With many dips on the way
It's hard to be strong

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (221 pp.)

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There's not much to it
Though there's good stuff here and there
A quick, painless read

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (235 pp.)

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He doesn't mock them
Or at least not all that much
Which makes it better

Them: Adventures with Extremists bu Jon Ronson (320 pp.)

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The best I can say
About this large collection
Is I finished it

The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories edited by Daniel Halpern (667 pp.)

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I thought I might cry
Because of the subtitle
I didn't; I laughed

Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball by Will Leitch (293 pp.)

What I Liked About October

*Cheap Trick, Northern Lights Theatre, Milwaukee, WI
*Chuck Berry and Johnny Rivers, Blueberry Hill, St. Louis, MO
*The birth of Delilah Jean Killinger
*Meeting T-Bones
*Tramped By Turtles, Turner Hall, Milwaukee, WI
*The jumbo pretzel, Mader's, Milwaukee, WI

*City Museum, St. Louis, MO
*Chess Studios, Chicago, IL
*Meeting Audrey Griswold (the first and best)
*Pi, St. Louis, MO
*Friends of the Library Book Sale, Ithaca, NY
*Riding the Red Line with Ronnie Woo Woo



*Hotch-A-Do, Milwaukee, WI
*Glow Party Bingo, Potatwatomi Bingo Casino, Milwaukee, WI
*The Elvis Club, Lakeside Lounge, NYC
*Jimmy Sturr, Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY
*Landmark Lanes, Milwaukee, WI
*The willingness of people with cars to drive me places