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When I was a young teenager my aunt gave me a Leif Garrett long playing record. Of course she meant well but I don’t think I even took the record out of the plastic wrapping. Today the BBC reported that a German radio host is accused of comparing Korean performing artists BTS to the Coronavirus….
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I remember sitting down in a Japanese restaurant in the Philippines after being away for a decade and a half. Somebody offered me a “California Roll” and I was in the shock of my life when I discovered that a California Roll in Manila had a certain ingredient I abhor that was not present…
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“Absolute id crashed into absolute superego…as the uptightset man in America shook hands with just about the loosest.” (Mark Feeney on the ‘Elvis meets Nixon’ meeting) Elvis Presley is such a universal icon but how many of us know even some of the episodes of his zany life. One of the most…