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jerry ryan
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Introducing the Bomber
By 1939, radio had become an integral part of American culture, and a substantial portion of the population regularly listened to radio broadcasts...
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Broadcasting Babe
Babe Ruth was born before Arthur Moore thought he heard the voice of God. Babe made it to the Yanks in 1920 when radio began to take off. As the...
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Babe Out of the Woods
A mere 20 years after Arthur Moore mistakenly heard the voice of God (or did he?), 1% of the Ameican descendants of Adam and Eve heard the first news...
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Sacred Snerkle?
I get it. We like to think that the voice of God speaks perfect English and sounds like Morgan Freeman or James Earl Jones or Orson Welles or all...
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Snerk Factory
Five minutes before the end of a successful working day (Is there a more blissful moment?) I was sitting in my cubicle gathering wool while...
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clarity
Posted on Tue, 30 Aug 2022
is a requirement for great writing. Your clarity is great in this piece. Not all clarity is engaging but this piece engages with the power of coherence and clarity. Thank you for this.
Read full commentPosted in Nanny part 1
Lovely rembrance
Posted on Thu, 25 Aug 2022
As a committed Scrabble player, I appreciate every detail of this story. I usually play against the computer so there's never gonna be a mystery zee as there was in this great story.
Read full commentPosted in Where's the Z?
hey Drew
Posted on Sat, 20 Aug 2022
We call it soccer over here and it's growing in popularity. The sterotype of soccer fans unfortunately is a bunch of rowdy drunks beating the shit out of each other. We are big fans of Ted Lasso over here for whatever that's worth. Fandom is a...
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Great question
Posted on Fri, 05 Aug 2022
Gracefully asked.
I was thinking about co-ordination and confidence. Writing is about the co-ordination of putting letters together that form thoughts and thought together that form ideas and ideas together that express a momentary...
Read full commentPosted in Why do you write?
some say we live as long as the last person who remembers us
Posted on Wed, 27 Jul 2022
is still alive. Your writing and growing reputation assures that you will live on even after you pass. I'm very glad that you're alive and that we have crossed paths during this mortal coil amidst the fog and the flowers.
Read full commentPosted in Forget-Me-Not
Sooner
Posted on Thu, 30 Jun 2022
is better than later. Thanks for reading David. Some people don't care for the razzamatazz that Luhrman brings to his direction. I found it appropriate in telling the tale of Elvis. It's a big movie. The day before we saw Black Phone....that's a...
Read full commentPosted in On Elvis
well done Richard
Posted on Wed, 01 Jun 2022
inspirational
Read full commentPosted in I Walk Among Recordings
Momentary Inspiration (thank you)
Posted on Sun, 29 May 2022
https://www.abctales.com/story/ice-rivers/vivian-inspired-jane#new
Thanks Jane for the inspiration
Read full commentPosted in If I can just get through the day
thanks for reading David
Posted on Sat, 28 May 2022
somehow, we survived. Not so sure about the reduction in people visiting the states. There's always people willing to run with the bulls. Imagin how much crdeit for balls you can get back home when you return from a trip to Detroit or St. Louis...
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Thank you David
Posted on Wed, 25 May 2022
I'm sorry that I had to write it.
Read full commentPosted in Memory and Mourning
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