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Damn, Austin, you're buds with Kevin Kelly: ubercool, dude. Your vid with him was a little long, and I was not able to listen to it all, but I randomly jumped to the section where you mentioned Sleepwalk and immediately bought it....screw whatever was so important a minute ago, I'm putting on some leg cuffs and gonna gorge on his great writing.

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Hey Austin … apropos of nothing in particular, I’m reading a book that I think you’d enjoy: The Ride of Her Life, by Elizabeth Letts. It’s the true story of a 63-year-old woman who, after hearing she has 2 years to live, decides to ride her pony across the U.S., accompanied by her mutt, from Maine to California to see the Pacific Ocean. This is 1956, pre- any kind of navigational tools or credit cards. It seems right up your alley!

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Sorry to hear the Frío Canyon didn’t work out, hoping the Universe will bring it back around in the near future for you. In the small town I grew up in we got to do a camp there in elementary school, it is a place worth returning to!

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One of my favorite places!

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If you're enjoying The Boys, you should totally check Invincible, on Amazon Prime! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bfAVpuko5o&t=83s

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Oh man, poor Kevin Rowland was having a rough day when he did that performance of "Come On, Eileen." He's got one of the most beautiful voices I know, he must've been sick or maybe had just worn out his vocal chords by the time they got to that song. I've always thought it was a shame Dexy's is thought of as a "one hit wonder" by so many here in the US. I had no idea they had so much great music until my British husband showed me the light. "Searching For the Young Soul Rebels" was the only CD I had in my old car for a couple of years, and I listened to it over and over and over. Never tired of it.

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I know! He belts it perfectly in other videos. The baffling thing is that it's on their OFFICIAL Vevo channel or whatever. Who made that call?? Must've been whatever they could get the rights to.

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Shhhh… We don’t talk about LL because those of us who have been want to be able to get back there. :)

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Not newsletter related but glad to see you're back on the bike and it looks like there's progress on your new studio?

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Spoke too soon—I *am* into superhero stuff but I've avoided The Boys so far since what little I saw of the source material I thought was super-cynical (in a bad way), exploitative, and crass. It sounds like they've tempered that in the show a bit and you're not the first person who's not especially into the superhero genre to recommend it so I think I need to give it a go.

(Plus, Karl Urban is so, so, good in everything he does!)

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It may be all of those things... but I like it? ha!

I somehow did not put it together that Karl Urban played Bones in that Star Trek reboot

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Hilarious about Ian McGilchrist. I’m hoping to start one of his soon. Perhaps I shouldn’t start with that one?!

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good lord, no, read THE MASTER AND HIS EMISSARY first. That's only, oh, 800 pages or so. HA!

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