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Of Love and Caffeine

Posted on August 17, 2011, 10:46 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

Thanks in good measure to Herbie Hancock and Ramsey Lewis and Minnie Riperton and Macke Vending, I became an intellectual…

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An Empty Room, Green Trolleys, and Brubeck

Posted on April 8, 2011, 11:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

However, for sheer guillotine-like intensity and definitiveness of severance, nothing in our society, short of divorces and funerals, begins to compare to the moment when parents leave kids off at college for the first time.

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