Month: August 2010
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It’s time for a timely yet timeless column
SOMETIMES I LIKE TO WRITE timeless columns. Now many authors have written timeless works, like Mark Twain writing Tom Sawyer, or Tolstoy writing War and Peace, or Shakespeare writing one…
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“Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus,” a cautionary tale
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA — I really would like to say that it wasn’t my fault — but I can’t. I really can’t. Four years ago on the weekend of the…
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What it was was futbol — again
A WHILE BACK MY WIFE’S FIRST COUSIN (once removed), Bobo Herring, came down from Traphill up in Wilkes County to visit his eldest son. Willy Bob, who now goes by…
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Living easy in the fourth-ranked state of laziness
I GOT UP LATE yesterday morning. I was still lounging around in my pajamas, reading the saved up papers, trying to catch up on the news I missed while on…
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