July 15th – Clarksdale, Mississippi
To be read in the voice of Morgan Freeman.
Hey.
Down in Mississippi, on Highway 61, in the heart of the old cotton belt, is a little place they call …
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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Retraining one’s head
For a while now I’ve been a bit concerned about my recall. I’ve always been utterly, utterly crap with names. Part of it’s low-grade social anxiety, and part of it – I think – is the …
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The Squeezing of Dolphins
The first girl I ever loved had to leave town to escape her father. It was, prior to that, probably the purest romantic experience I’ve ever had. And when she left it saddened me for a …
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July 12th – Graceland Too
The house slouches on an innocuous suburban corner in the township of Holly Springs, Mississippi. Garden centre Christmas trees, rope lights, chainlink fence, barbed wire and weatherbeaten stone lions …
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In which we make the press
I’m halfway through prepping my article on Graceland Too, when April emails me this link.
From that room we visited his backyard, an homage to “Jailhouse Rock,” complete with a homemade electric chair.
To get visitors’ attention, MacLeod …
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