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Culture

Texas Equivalence Measure

—The Obscure Penguin— For those poor souls who aren’t from Texas who simply can’t understand why Texans are the way they are, I’ve created this equivalence measure to try to communicate to them in their own language, describing what a Texan is: If I lived in New Jersey and hung out with Bruce Springsteen, that […]

Culture

Soundtrack

—The Obscure Penguin— I’ve always heard a soundtrack in my life.  Like many people younger than I, I’ve listened to a lot of music.  I say it that way because my parents, who also appreciated music, didn’t have the same intense connection to it growing up the way I did.  My father used to give […]