Category Archives: The Facts of Life

Scenes from my life: Neil Sedaka

The setting: a square, dull, small room without windows. A cell, really. A few wooden chairs in a row, as if it were a tiny theater. An upright piano backed against one of the walls in a front corner of … Continue reading

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Only the bestest people

There are days when I have a flash thought: a cabal within the current US administration is secretly promulgating actual facts to be compiled after the End Day into a brilliant political satire, like The Death of Stalin. Then I … Continue reading

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Animal news: A deeper meaning to “playing possum”

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [A] possum was found burrowed among stuffed animals in an Australian airport gift shop.  “It wanted to blend in,” said the airport’s retail manager.

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