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Having Read Jane Austen…at Last

Posted on April 9, 2025April 11, 2025 by Grant Wentzel

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a former English Major, in possession of many sagging shelves, has not only read but rather enjoyed the…

Kevin Griffin - Greatest Song
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Can Life Be Better Than Ezra? Kevin Griffin’s The Greatest Song

Posted on February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 by Grant Wentzel

Middle age sneaks up on you in different ways. Might be big, like a heart attack, or a pink slip from that sure-fire thing, or…

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So You Wanna Be a Punk?

Posted on February 8, 2025February 8, 2025 by Grant Wentzel

Sliding in on a conversation with some younger friends, I bid my time and knew my place. It’s weird to be this age, when yes,…

Hermann Brock The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers’ Inertia Of Feeling

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Grant Wentzel

File under forgotten texts. Hermann Broch was a Austrian author from the first half of the twentieth century. He came to writing somewhat later in…

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Dude, What Happened to My 90s?*

Posted on July 9, 2023July 9, 2023 by Grant Wentzel

It was sometime back in the early teens of our current century that I realized something was off. Placing a half-hung morning order at a…

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Ok Bono, I Give In

Posted on May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 by Grant Wentzel

As a Gen-X music listener, it’s pretty hard not to be a fan of U2. At some point they caught your ear, an inescapable part…

Flea - Acid For The Children
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Flea: Acid For The Children

Posted on May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 by Grant Wentzel

By the time The Red Hot Chili Peppers hit the stage, we were whooped. We’d already moshed to Ministry, hollered back at Ice Cube, tuned…

Kitchen Confidential Grant Wentzel
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Catching Up On Kitchen Confidential

Posted on January 31, 2022February 1, 2022 by Grant Wentzel

Knocking around odd-ball shops near Golden Gate Park I spied a copy of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. “I’ve never read that,” I said to my…

The Pilgrim's Progress, Well-Used
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Straights and Narrows

Posted on August 8, 2021August 8, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

I might have read The Pilgrim’s Progress before. There is evidence that points in this direction. Snug it sat there in my bookcase, my dilettante’s…

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Snyder’s Shadow-Bluffs

Posted on March 23, 2021March 23, 2021 by Grant Wentzel

Had a new realization today about one of my favorite lines of poetry: In the shadow of bluffs I came back to myself,To the real…

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