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How's the old Kathy Mattea song go? "Standing knee deep in a river, and dying of thirst." My wife puts up with me, but it has to be annoying. "Isn't it funny that we ingest food," I say. Or, "It's so strange that we have these orbs in the front of our heads …
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I've been hearing about this film for awhile. "You'll either love it, or hate it," people told me. A few people who know me pretty well figured it would be my kind of movie. Anjie travels, and I'd been contemplating watching it without her, but I kept thinking, "No. I'll wait for her." So …
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I finished the 4th draft of my new play, and in spite of as much focused and deep work as I've done on a play and a group of characters, still missed the goal by a mile. (Well, maybe more like a half-mile, but still.) Not that there are not some good things about the …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 