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Throwin' DOWN! So are those vacation pictures OLD?

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I wrote more of this staring at the Caribbean than I should admit

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I found myself wondering if you were so wrapped up in knocking these out that you didn't wake Jennifer up quickly enough for her to avoid her strawberry sunburn.

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THIS is a tough one, oh god. A lot of stuff on the shortlist for my top ten given pretty subpar grades.

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You are not alone, but Brad sets a high bar and I always feel satisfied with his justification, even if I don't agree with it.

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I always tell my students a B+ is a good grade. A straight B, yeah, I don't try to convince them on that.

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Agree 100% with whatever percentage of these I’ve heard

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The Tyler Childers review seems more like something from your regular column, but I don’t care. I read this whole thing with nods of recognition crossed with “I get what you mean but damned if that frog song doesn’t make me happy” and more than a few “I’ll probably never hear this but this writing is so good it doesn’t need to reference anything outside this Substack.”

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I'm impressed you spotted that… To ensure a little more positivity here, I held over the Childers review from the last Semipop Life, with a note to try to make the gigantic asses joke more elegant. (I did not make it more elegant.)

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