HeyJaredMusings From A History Nerd
Short visits from the daze of future past sprinkled with occasional rock references and snark.
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Once, When the World Hurt With Us (opens the original)
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Many of you know about my experiences of September 11, 2001— how my family was closely touched, how many of my college classmates died in the Towers that day. I’d like to share an email I received this morning from Bill Penzey of Penzey’s Spices. Based in Wisconsin, their stores offer a wonderful array, but today’s note is not about cooking. This letter articulates how once upon a time, after those horrible September events, if you traveled across the world, a lot of people grieved with us. Befo
Well, There's a Wino Down the Road... (opens the original)
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The news is ugly and dark right now. The regime’s ICE-stapo is gunning people down in the streets again, and while I truly need an outlet to vent my rage, I have decided that this post ain’t it. I decided we could all use a little break. So today, we are going to laugh at misheard lyrics. Subscribe nowHistorically, the most famous case is that of “Louie, Louie.” The original song was written and recorded by Richard Berry in 1957, but it is the 1963 version by The Kingsmen that got all the at
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