HeyJaredJohn’s Substack
My personal Substack - Here's a collection of some of the writing I've been doing since May of 2024. Author of nine books, a tenth on Bruce Springsteen in the works. I write about Literature, Music, Sports, Politics, History, welcome your responses!
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Enough, already, Rick! Stop! (opens the original)
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Maybe Kramer had the right idea. Maybe you remember the Seinfeld episode where Kramer was getting just too much junk mail. He went to the Post Office, said he wanted out. It took a personal visit from the Postmaster General - missing his golf game - to convince Kramer to keep getting his mail. I suppose the good news is you’ve got $108 million in the bank to blow on anything your heart desires. There’s certainly way more than that in there, right? It’s tip money. Think of what good you could do
The “new” Neil Young unveiled (opens the original)
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First, let’s go back to September just one year ago. When Neil Young took the stage at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis - yeah, Minneapolis - for Farm Aid 40, he was, as angry anchor Howard Beale memorably screamed in the film “Network” - “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”Thanks for reading John’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscriptio
Maye not? Patriots wonder (opens the original)
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How could somebody who was so good - nearly the Most Valuable Player in the National Football League a year ago - look so bad? The defending AFC champion New England Patriots were scorched in Jacksonville Sunday afternoon, 35-6. It was a comeuppance like you’ve seldom seen these days. How could somebody, just a 23-year-old kid throwing to a bunch of NFL castoffs, really, guys either past their prime (Stefon Diggs, Hunter Henry) or never really moving the needle (Kayshon Boutte, Pop Douglas) and
New sounds, old voices (opens the original)
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Whether it’s the suddenly refreshing chill in the air, the upcoming elections, the endless war in Iran, six-dollar diesel prices or just the way things worked out, the airwaves are about to be filled with new sounds from old voices. On his 77th birthday, Bruce Springsteen released Part Two of his “Land Of Hopes And Dreams” tour film on YouTube, the wonderful film of the tour’s closing show in Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love. Part One, the opening seven songs of the show, came out on Sep
Substacking = New Views? (opens the original)
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Can Substack change your life? Make you a better person? Put a bounce in your step? Get your brain wandering into corners that might have been pretty dusty? I don’t know. But I am wondering. On Thursday afternoon, I took my son and daughter-in-law to a local restaurant we last visited, must have been 24 years ago when I was covering a local football game for a local newspaper. And there was a copy of the local paper there, which I grabbed on the way out.Thanks for reading John&#
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