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So the grumpy green guy comes down from on high, tries to steal every last piece of Christmas, has a heart-enlarging change of heart, returns all the trappings and trimmings and gets invited to dinner by very people he robbed? I have never – not for one second – believed the Whos were actually cool…
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I saw a local media outlet promoting a reporter whose job it is today to help the dear readers sort out the Black Friday chaos–as if Americans needed help buying stuff. It’s just about all we do well these days, and of course we’ve fetishized it and commoditized the oddest hours of the day. It’s…
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It was a strange and fun thing to hear–myself sounding not completely stupid on the radio, a lead-in to “Trapped.” It was nice to hear “Trapped.”
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There’s an old photo album tucked away in a box in my parents’ basement. Before last summer, when I dug it out on a trip home, I’d seen it once before. My grandfather had shown it to me one day when I was working on a college history project. I’d never known my grandpa to be…
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Kindly blog readers, Hello. How are you doing? Did you know we have a newsletter here at Ryan White & Associates? It’s true. Truer than the “Associates.” You can sign up here. We do this roughly every week. We won’t sell your info. Hell, I won’t really even look at your info. This week we…
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“We live in a post–authentic world. And today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It’s all just what you’re bringing when the lights go down. It’s your teachers, your influences, your personal history; and at the end of the day, it’s the power and purpose of your music that still matters.” —Bruce Springsteen, SXSW keynote,…
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It was freezing for Gainesville. On TV, there was a full-on freak out over frost. I zipped up my jacket and went in search of a library which, all jock factory jokes aside, is a very nice library. Libraries, actually. The George A. Smathers Libraries. And within them is the The Department of Special & Area Studies…
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Excerpted from last week’s Ryan White & Associates newsletter. Give or take, it goes out every week. The associates (there are no associates) are playing catch up after a fantastic Sunday night. To sign up for the newsletter, click. I’m Shining Armor. Sometimes the kiddo is Cadance. Other times she’s Princess Celestia, or Twilight Sparkle. But…
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Book party. Book party. Book party. So, book parties are fun. Thank you to everyone who came out to Mississippi Pizza last night, and sorry to those who couldn’t get in because it was packed. Like, unexpectedly packed. It was nice. It was a lot of fun. As I said on Facebook and Twitter, for…
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“A here we are and here we go/all aboard and we’re hittin’ the road/here we go, rockin’ all over the world”
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