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Adventures of the Author

So it’s Friday and I’m in love. I’m also coming to the end of a full week brain-racking, trying to think of a good way to celebrate the third anniversary of this blog.
Without much of anything you’d call success.
After my first year on this site I presented a blog of the state address, complete with [...]

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The Other White Meat

by Brent on January 13, 2010

in Adventures of the Author

Recently, while wandering the highways and byways of Tennessee in search of a snack, I found a unique dining establishment.
Not a hole in the wall or a greasy spoon, but a really upscale eatery, featuring a cuisine unmatched in the western hemisphere.
Which is probably a good thing.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to have fine [...]

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End of Year Update

by Brent on December 30, 2009

in Adventures of the Author

Although you wouldn’t know it from reading this blog, recently the interwaves have been awash with interviews, interventions, and other interaction of my various web-projects outside or our beloved Comma.*
And so in a last minute attempt to wrap-up the year and perhaps atone for a certain deficit of attention applied to this site, please allow [...]

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Mind Over Memphis Preview

by Brent on October 7, 2009

in Adventures of the Author

Friends, the moment we’ve all dreaded and feared has come upon us at last. Therapist, egotist, and professional fashion victim Doctor Harold Toboggans has finally released his new video series Mind Over Memphis.

“Don’t hate me because I’m tacky”
In this bold new experiment in full-motion arrogance, Dr Toboggans takes upon himself to “rehabilitate” the artists, activists, [...]

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What the Dysfunction?

by Brent on September 27, 2009

in Adventures of the Author

As you might have notice, I’m having trouble with my Comma.
As in so many other endeavors timing is everything, and this timing is a little rough.
Currently I am:

Co-producing Doctor Toboggans’s upcoming video series Mind Over Memphis
Spinning up drtoboggans.com to host the new series
Handling a large and unexpected new project at my day job
Prepping Doctor Toboggans [...]

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Therapist, eyesore, and my own personal nightmare Doctor Harold Toboggans is threatening the Cooper Young Festival with his presence this year, according to sources with the misfortune of being close to him.
Insiders deep within the squalid confines of Toboggans Industries, say that the Doctor is intent on “curing” the estimated eighty-five thousand people expected to [...]

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