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Read More: February 6th, 1987February 6th, 1987, Normal, Illinois. It’s about 10:00 at night, and everything is shut down in Central Illinois. It’s been below zero for a week or more and even ISU’s classes are cancelled due to the extreme cold. My 3 roommates and I have been sitting around drinking beer all day and watching TV when…
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Read More: Top 10 (or maybe 20) Fuck-Ups of Scott Livingston in Chronological OrderThe bottom line is that I take full responsibility for all of these fuck-ups. Whether I trusted people that I knew I shouldn’t, allowed myself to be manipulated or I was just stupid, I get the credit. Maybe in the case of C.G. and his father and my landlord at the shop I couldn’t foresee…
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Read More: I Do BelieveA great song by the Drive-By Truckers (Written by Patterson Hood) about reminiscing on the golden days of childhood, how the narrator’s mother (?) continues to live on through memories.“And when I’m gonna, again I’ll find / My way back into your kitchen” – this is the narrator’s personal heaven; when he dies this is…
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Read More: Alice CooperIt’s late October, 1973 at about 1:30 in the morning, and Alice Cooper is winding up a set on the Midnight Special. Wolfman Jack is singing their praises and the studio audience is going wild with adoration. There’s my mother, tanked as usual whooping and yelling at the TV. It was then that she…
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Read More: The answering machine message.The answering machine message. Normal, IL Summer 1987. We had an answering machine, a landline, some leftover firecrackers and a lot of people calling us wanting money and a good stereo. We were poor deadbeat college students. I thought it was time for a good outgoing message. I cut the fuses on two firecrackers to…
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Read More: Scenario 04Sometime in 1996, somewhere North of US 150 between Peoria and Bloomington. I was coming back from Peoria, and I always took 150 instead of I74 because it was a nicer, quieter drive and about the same travel time. I see a sign that says “School Auction”. Now that gets my curiosity up. Is the…
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Read More: Schön and Jessica:It is Spring of 1996, Towanda, IL, just off old Route 66. I would drive my daughter Jessica to school every morning with our Big Dog, Schon. Schon was a 120-pound German Shepherd that was an incredible animal. He was smart, loyal and devoted to his family. Driving South from Lexington we would always stop…
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