Tag Archives: Al Capone

Love, Beheadings, and a Tommy Gun: Let’s Celebrate St. Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2012

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As I write this two birds sing to one another outside my window. It would be romantic to assume it was a love song. The reality is they’re warning each other about my cat eyeing them through my window as though Purina had gone out of business. So much for romance, eh? Or not. I’ve […]

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They Just Don’t Riot Like They Used To

July 29, 2011

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I remember watching the Los Angeles Riots in the early nineties. As a kid in East Tennessee, it might as well have been footage from Mars. I’d never seen anything even remotely resembling the bubbling anger and resentment that poured into the streets and erupted in fire. Years later, I’d see old footage of the […]

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