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Open Bar: Mall People

Pronounced in a certain fashion It sounds more like mole than mall And that doesn’t seem like a coincidence For…
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Open Bar: In My Eyes

Her footsteps on the stairs are my cue to assume a rigid stance, a vapidly welcoming smile plastered on my…
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Open Bar: The Wax Room

Huddled in small groups, conversing in halting politeness, it was easy to read the discomfort and pain in their visages…
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Open Bar: Degrees of Difficulty

As the first slivers of dawn creep up the mountainside, the shrill shrieks of alarms pierce through bedrooms across the…
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Open Bar: My Father Walks Too Fast

Hemmed in at all sides by throngs of pedestrians, the avenue a canyon of buildings taller than I imagined, we…
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Open Bar: Rent Is Due

“Workers of the world, unite!” The admonition, the plea, the call to action rang through the bar, issued by a…
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Open Bar: It’s Casual

Casual is for slacks Worn by unfashionable drones On the day that they Celebrate salvation from their Mundane existence Casual…
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Open Bar: Cast of Characters

The handsome graying of his beard is a physical manifestation of his guru status, an attestation to the wisdom acquired…
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Open Bar: In The Vernacular

I catch an appropriate amount of flack for the high-minded, occasionally cryptic language employed in this column.  But, brah, I…
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Open Bar: Remain in Confidence

No matter how far or how high, my bike always seems to make it to the top of the trail,…
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