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After I sent an eventually-successful autograph request to Robert Blake, I continued my program of making one attempt per day to obtain a variety of celebrity autographs. Some of my unsuccessful attempts between July 20,  were to Kurt Vonnegut, Ronald Reagan, Tony Dow, Bill Clinton, and George Bush (who alternately refused, never answered, or sent […]

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So what was I doing as I turned nine? Hard to say, but I can gather a few things from existing photos. I’m not sure what I did - if anything - to celebrate my ninth birthday, but I do know what I went out as on Halloween - well, sorta. I was the highly polictically […]

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Two Big Seven Bands in the Summer of 1991

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The school season of 1991 finally came to a close. I had finished my seemingly excruciatingly long first year of college and Christi had finally graduated from high school. Her commencement cermony was held at the Nutter Center on Friday, May 31, 1991. I don’t currently have any really good photos of Christi actually graduating […]

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It was not long after our Summer 2000 trip to Myrtle Beach that it became rapidly apparent that the relationship that Lisa and I had been building for the past six years was coming to a close. I returned from the trip on Sunday, July 30 and the next day resumed my management training at […]

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Ex-Beatles, while often sharing songwriting credit with a partner, usually didn’t need to share lead vocal duties with anyone. John had his Yoko…and Paul had Denny Laine. Denny sang lead vocals on no less than six songs on various Paul McCartney and Wings albums, including one of my favorites, The Note You Never Wrote on […]

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