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...in which Ashley becomes disillusioned with a childhood icon and the proper rules of the English language

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...in which Ashley just can't eat this crap

Apr 12

...in which Ashley fails to cash in once again

Mar 10

...in which Ashley leans over and spits

Feb 26

Among the many regular loiterers demonstrating street-loon schtick at the Pseudonym Bookstore, where I ostensibly “worked” during the 1980’s, was the…

Feb 23

When you’ve lived in America for over fifty years, any evidence of reasonable sanity encountered in a foreign culture can seem … foreign. Everything may…

Jan 6

... in which Ashley quits while the quittin's good

Dec 29, 2021

... in which Ashley fails to understand even more than usual

Dec 14, 2021

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