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liar, liar, dome on fire
I leave town for… well, four months, I guess… and so they set the big shiny dome on fire. The time before that, they burned up a bunch of stuff in my old high school auditorium; and before that, they...
View ArticleNight of the Living Dead Mall
My earliest memories of the Sycamore Mall were of this big animatronic Christmas tree they put up each year a ways down from Santa’s house. It moved its branches and spoke in a pleasant contralto; I...
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Pie Is Fightin’ Words
“Respect the art of pie” wrote Susan Bright. I wonder what she’d think of the diner in Iowa City I read about in the paper that tosses pie in a blender and calls it a “pie shake.” No time to bake pie....
View ArticleJames Van Allen, Rest in Peace
Senior year of high school, my friend and I usually took the stairs up to our after-school astronomy analysis-monkey internships on the top floor of Van Allen hall. One day, he arrived late to lab,...
View ArticleCaucus
Iowa City is a liberal town, but I think it gained a few Republicans tonight, just because their caucus line was so much shorter. The Democrats stretched down the hall, back again, and out the door,...
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