HeyJaredPostcards From Home
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Animal Houses (opens the original)
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My freshman year began the year after “Animal House” hit movie theaters. There was at least one toga party on frat row. Maybe a food fight or two. (I neither confirm or deny any role I may have played in said fight.) There was a small sense of part-ownership, part-pride on our campus. One of the writers (Harold Ramis) was an alum.The dean of students could have been cast in the movie. When I worked for the student newspaper during my senior year, the first thing any of us would do was check to s
Little leaks (opens the original)
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The city inspector emerged from the crawl space under my house last week. “The work looks good,” he said, and proceeded to tell me the difference between a home inspector and a city or code inspector. I tried to give him a look in between I wasn’t born yesterday and thank you so much.“You’ve got a little leak.” He flipped on his flashlight and moved it back and forth along a line the way you might to get a cat to chase a laser. We batted back and forth whether it was a 1/2-inch line or a 3/4-inc
Shopping center (opens the original)
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Walking around the shopping center parking lot this morning, I found myself feeling partly grateful and partly nostalgic. The shopping center resembles the one in a suburb in Florida where I and a couple of friends would hang out after school. There was a Publix grocery and an Eckerd’s drugstore at one end, and a Zayre’s discount department store at the other. In between, there was an assortment of other stores. I can only recall a camera store, which I frequented once I got my SLR (I didn’t get
Homegoing (opens the original)
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The first Dolly Parton song that I know of that I heard was Maria Muldaur’s cover of “My Tennessee Mountain Home.” The song appears on Muldaur’s eponymous 1973 album, a fine album that holds up well, that’s almost worth having just to read through the list of composers and musicians and backup singers: Dr. John, Kate McGarrigle, Dan Hicks, Jimmie Rodgers, Ry Cooder, Amos Garrett, Chris Ethridge, Bettye LaVette, to name a few.The song itself feels effortless, calling up details of summer evenings
Toe jam (opens the original)
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This morning a mosquito flew out of my refrigerator. Or into it. I’m not entirely sure. Perhaps it was trying to cool off.Either way, it was preferable to what happened Saturday last, when I reached for a handful of mints (don’t judge me), and a few items came tumbling out of what I still occasionally think of as the icebox, though that is way before my time. My grandparents may have used that term. My grandfather surely would have remembered genuine iceboxes. My aunt and uncle had one that was
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