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Nov 29

How I Lived To Be Fifty

  • By Marty Barrett in extended status update

DAMP-MAT-OF-MY-TRUTH

“If Marty Barrett is fifty, what does that mean for me?”

  • AA, aaa, aarp, aging, andrew marvell, barack obama, echo and the bunnymen, edith bunker, hootie and the blowfish, jack kerouac, jean stapleton, jim jones, john adams, ll bean, marcus aurelius, mindfulness, nog, pox, ralphs, Sir Mixalot, sisters of mercy, thomas jefferson, truman capote, vons, william shakespeare
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Jul 03

This Time Tomorrow: July 3, 1776

  • By Marty Barrett in a short story for america, history, music

declaration of independence signatures

Today we hoist a Button Gwinnett for bittersweet but necessary departures.

  • alternate history, benjamin franklin, button gwinnett, charles thomson, declaration of indeoendence, john adams, john hancock, quadrophenia, the kinks, the who, thomas jefferson, vespa, william whipple
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Aug 14

From My Occasional Series “I Don’t Think Anyone Ever Actually Spoke French”

  • By Marty Barrett in memes

One of the biggest hoaxes around is that the French language exists, and that there are places in the world in which people of all hues and backgrounds speak it.

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  • cardinal richelieu, charles lindbergh, fauxtes, thomas jefferson
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