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    My Rock Between Two Worlds

    Jan 04, 2021

    I find my perfect solitude where the city meets the desert

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    In Praise of the Cheapo Kiddie Pool

    May 27, 2020

    How I got over myself and spent thirty dollars to enter a magic portal to instant endless summer vacation

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    This Is Us

    Nov 19, 2018

    My mash note to a painting that indicts Las Vegas' heedless growth

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    Claiming my spot among the original Believers

    Apr 27, 2017

    Some time, when we look back from a future, shark-jumped Believer Festival, these will have been the days

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    Ode to the smog check hut dude

    Sep 06, 2016

    The smog check hut dude is difficult to classify. He’s not an auto mechanic, obviously, but not merely a smog-themed 7-Eleven clerk, either ...

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    Ode to Big Agnes

    Nov 24, 2015
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    Remembering Literary Las Vegas

    Nov 10, 2015

    An affectionate look back at a book stuck in the past

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    Dry idea

    Jan 13, 2015

    It was New Year’s Day 2014 — I believe I was trying to outflank an inchoate hangover migraine with flat lukewarm last-night champagne — when my girlfriend proposed Dry January. Dry wha? You know, a month without drinking alcohol.

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    Lost swans

    Aug 13, 2014

    At the baccarat table

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    Things we love right now: Utah, ancient tech

    Aug 11, 2014

    It’s not just the Shakespeare Festival — although that was the central reason why five friends and I planned a three-day excursion there weekend-before-last — it’s all the other coolness that surrounds the festival like a comfy cultural blanket.

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    "Lewis Avenue"  a poem by Gregory Crosby

    Apr 03, 2014

    Everything fades except its representation.
    I’m a river of gin flowing in search of a still, sour ocean of tonic.

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    Valley of Fire

    Feb 13, 2014

    Desert Companion's 2014 Best of the City issue is out now! Included among the blurbs on the best food, culture, shopping and lifestyle amenities are a few writerly odes to superlative aspects of Las Vegas. In fact, we had so much ode-age, we couldn't fit them all in!

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    Ode to the Vegas lady

    Jan 30, 2014

    Desert Companion's 2014 Best of the City issue is on its way! Included among the blurbs on the best food, culture, shopping and lifestyle amenities are a few writerly odes to superlative aspects of Las Vegas. Until the February edition arrives, here's a bonus ode to whet your appetite.

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    Ode to the Bellagio fountains

    Jan 29, 2014

    Desert Companion's 2014 Best of the City issue is on its way. Included among the blurbs on the best food, culture, shopping and lifestyle amenities are a few writerly odes to superlative aspects of Las Vegas.

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