HeyJaredMinistry of Truthiness
Worthless writings from a former inmate of the Vermont Home for the Visually Unpleasant, and current inmate of the California Home for the Permanently Dishevelled.
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Back to Vermont: Stage 1 (opens the original)
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Last month, during the heat wave when the temperature at my cabin got to 102 one day, I decided to move back to Vermont. I lived there from 2009 to 2024. There are number of reasons why I’m moving back, and not just because things like insurance and houses are a lot cheaper (which I mentioned in a Note recently). I knew that being back in California was only going to be a temporary thing, but I finally could not take it any more and decided not to wait another year. I’m 71 and in good health, bu
Travels with Dr. Fow-Chi (opens the original)
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Dearest Gertrude,Our expedition into the wilds of the unexplored American continent has been forced to halt, and our spirits are disheartened from repeated disasters, as I will now recount.As you know, before our expedition got underway, our Chinese doctor, Fow-Chi, prescribed a special injection of his own design for all expedition members. He assured us that this would protect us from a hideous ailment that he called the “Cave Bat Cough”. Despite none of us having prior knowledge of this myste
How Classical Music Changed My Life (opens the original)
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In 1978, a woman I was madly in love with sent me (in the mail! remember that?) this magazine ad for a classical music radio station in Los Angeles:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="2083" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v2cl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_a
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