No! Not the Earl of Oxford?!

I’ll admit, I’ve had a soft spot for the theory that Edward De Vere is secretly Shakespeare ever since I read a book in grad school that purported to show how the Earl left all kinds of clues in the text, such as writing his name over and over and over again in some kind [...]

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye

When I was a kid, I had a friend, K. whose dad was an urepentant Southerner in the middle of Illinois married to a woman with the same name as his mother, which was a pretty uncommon name.  K’s mom, the aforementioned woman, was one of the first people who talked to me like an adult, [...]

Just one Question

Pesky Fly has what may be my favorite post of the day today.  Informative, fun to listen to, and… well, that’s it.  It’s the kind of post I wish I knew enough about a song to write.
But here’s my one question.  Don’t you hear a little of this:

in this?
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