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Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Write About Al Jarreau Yet
Last Sunday I said I would find time to write about Al Jarreau in the coming week, but a few days ago Jeff Giles told me to put my ode to the seven-time Grammy
Read More »Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Meet Deadlines
Were you anxiously awaiting the conclusion of my Wesley Snipes two-parter on Tuesday? Did you have to take anti-anxiety medication when it didn’t appear? It’s not my fault you’re a pill popper, of course,
Read More »Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Convict
January 12, as I’m sure you remember, was my lawyer/friend Dave-o’s birthday, and in case you’re wondering, I didn’t end up getting him a leather attaché case. What if it rains? Exactly. Aside from
Read More »Sugar Water: January’s Almost Over
If you were born in January or you fell in love in January or you got married in January or you have a child who was born or fell in love or got married
Read More »Sugar Water: Testify! (Before Congress)
As you know, these are trying times, filled with economic uncertainty, terrorist threats, military aggression, global warming, and even a few presidential candidates who aren’t white guys. In times like these, it helps to
Read More »Sugar Water: Parade (Of Lies!)
I should start subscribing to the newspaper again on Sundays. Not for the news, of course. Please. No, the only part of the paper I’m interested in is Parade magazine, particularly Walter Scott’s Personality
Read More »Sugar Water: The Adventure Continues …
Sequels aren’t always good, but the movie-loving teenager who continues to take up space inside my soul will always be excited by them, especially the mere concept of sequels, i.e. “more of what you
Read More »Sugar Water: I Believe the Children Are Our Inarticulate Future
I’m a little angry today. I wish I wasn’t. After all, it’s a new year. A chance to put aside the previous year’s disappointments, setbacks, frustrating failures, endlessly escalating arguments, sunlight-devouring grudges, and temporarily
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