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The Naked Cowboy: Underwear, Muscles, Ass Grabs, Being the King, and a Search for the American Dream

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“I’m you and you me.”’ – The Naked Cowboy The Naked Cowboy, a modern legend of metropolis, hits the pavement playing his guitar. Times Square hums, the center of the world. Thousands of people pass by everyday. Still, even the most jaded of New Yorker stops to take a look. In a place that has […]

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Need a Ride? Looking for a Vanishing Hitchhiker

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Keep your foot on the gas. Avoid eye contact. Never slow down. My car swings around a curve as the two lane highway changes from strip malls and car dealership lights to a dark New England road. I’m in search of the Red-Headed Hitchhiker, a ghost who has haunted this stretch of Route 44 for […]

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Bump In The Night

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They Can’t All Be Flakes, Weirdos, Cranks, Opportunists and Out-And-Out Psychotics. Can They? “I’d tell all my friends but they’d never believe me; they’d think that I’d finally lost it completely.” –Radiohead, “Subterranean Homesick Alien” A huge triangular object appeared, swooping in low. The sky turned into a whirl of flashing red and white lights. […]

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Fur Panic Strikes

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Teen Wolf, Bray Road, Silver Bullets and Werewolf Moms “If you hear him howling around your kitchen door. Better not let him in. Little old lady got mutilated late last night” – Warren Zevon,  Werewolves of London Listen for the creature breathing in the darkness, waiting to rip your lungs out. A howl comes from […]

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Scottish Prayer

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This is the traditional Scottish Prayer I wrote by when I was writing my “Bump in the Night” column for Severe Magazine. From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

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