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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #21: The Speed Trap
Some advance warning: I’m going to stop this story and start over because it’s the only way I can figure out how to tell it. So it’s 1980, morning in America, and I’m riding in a car with my grandfather. We are on the way home from the golf course. It’s sunny and we’re in Wisconsin Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week: The Hateful Reader!
Today’s Comment of the Week comes from Wonderful Reader G.Z.K., who writes: Love misrepresented advice. This is brilliant. Your style of writing is immensely appealing. If I wasn’t such a sore loser I would adore this, but unfortunately I’m just jealous and I’m forced to hate you. Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #20: The Sign
I was in my twenties and working yet another dead end job. You know how it is. Overworked. Overtired. Undervalued. I simply could not believe that this was all there was to life. And then what? Death. Oblivion. So it was this and then that. Wow. Or was there a Heaven to look forward to? Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #19: My Roommate’s Books
My roommate arrived before I did; I met his stuff before I met him. Meeting his stuff first was fine with me, because the truth was that I was a little afraid of him. Wilfred Carter Boiteaux III. From New Orleans. Or maybe of New Orleans? I had not known anyone with a name like Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week
From Wonderful Reader nilochahtims, commenting on A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #3 – The Blood Cake: I started reading, and I could not stop. I had my daughter read the first two sentences, and she could not stop. Same with my wife. My favorite was the ear: icing on the cake. An ID-photo Continue reading
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Today’s Comment of the Week
From Wonderful Reader lilolimon, commenting on A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #13 – The Monster: Your story made me laugh. Since I am a mexican I can relate completely to this guy jajaja Is it something in our blood that prevents us from “behaving properly”? I have no idea, but I can tell Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #14 – The Bass Guitar
Are you familiar with the Suzuki method? I wasn’t. Oh sure, I’d heard of it—all those cute little violin prodigies, and something about kindergarteners learning how to play by ear that sounded impressive—but I didn’t know many details until I signed my kid up for piano lessons with a Suzuki teacher. It turns out that Suzuki Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #13 – The Monster
I was traveling through Scotland in the dead of winter. Most of my life was spent holed up in a guest house in Inverness, sitting by the fireplace and reading Ulysses. I was content, mostly, but every day I forced myself to get out and do at least one thing. Typically this meant I made Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #12 – The Tickets to the Premiere
It was during my study-abroad year in Bologna that my friend Roberto and I decided to write a musical. Not just for fun, not just for some school play or party or anything immature like that—no, we were going to be great and famous writers of musicals. Wilson & Benedetti! And why not us? Roberto Continue reading
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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects #11 – The Bench
I don’t know why I stopped in Nanjing on my way to Beijing. Someone had said it was good. Buddhist temples, a mausoleum for Dr. Sun Yat-Sen… Why not? I had time to burn and no place else to be. It was only after I arrived, hot and grimy and exhausted from late night travel Continue reading
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