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L. Roy Aiken
Sep 66 min read
“Oh, Do Be Quiet!”
Common expressions and tropes that contradict and confuse the reality of things. I’m as sick of the word “communism” as used by...
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L. Roy Aiken
Aug 63 min read
At the Summer Park Festival
A view of the world from a fine summer’s day in the park.
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L. Roy Aiken
May 304 min read
No Rest for Satan’s Slaves
They’ll sing the old songs for the entirety of their unnaturally extended lives. The 27 Club were the lucky ones.
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L. Roy Aiken
Apr 153 min read
These Anniversaries Are Getting Way Too Old
Time to put them to sleep? Death to Nostalgia, Part 2
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 183 min read
The Beginning of the End for Classic Rock
Death to Nostalgia, Part 1
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 164 min read
Contemplating the Numbers Beneath Sci-Fi Skies
Just how aware are people, and how many are they?
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 101 min read
Feast!
Nothing could safeguard the hours
they were swallowed up by the days
the days swallowed up in weeks
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L. Roy Aiken
Jan 105 min read
23-Skidoo in Review
The Jazz Age, in which that expression originated, is 100 years ago. Everything before 2020 might as well be, too.
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 4, 20235 min read
How I Know Christ Is King
...and that the Kingdom of Heaven is closer at hand than we dare think.
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 23, 20231 min read
The Conversation Around the Table
Pumpkin pie, yes. Religion & politics, no. Faith? Let us sing!
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 23, 20233 min read
After the Big Holiday Dinner, the Old Man Explains How It All Came to Pass
A No-Thanks Thanksgiving Poem
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L. Roy Aiken
Sep 27, 20235 min read
Death of the New Fall TV Season
It’s actually a good thing, the more you think about it. Still, another thing lost, tears in the rain and all that….
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L. Roy Aiken
Sep 26, 20233 min read
Jimmy Buffett, R.I.P.
Enjoy your cheeseburgers in paradise, good sir.
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L. Roy Aiken
Aug 5, 20236 min read
“Seems We Just Get Started and Before You Know It”
Of my haunted Saturday nights. Maybe writing this will finally make that ghost of a theme song go to its rest.
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 24, 20237 min read
The President’s Day That Wasn’t
More crimes of noticing in our real-life sci-fi dystopia.
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 2, 20235 min read
Why Is Everything Just Like This All the Time Now?
The Dreary Sameness of Hell, again.
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