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...field goal that won a Super Bowl. "What do you do after you've won the Super Bowl?" Jim O'Brien asked himself, and there was no answer. "I was single," he says, "and I was immature. I did some dumb things." He got into a barroom fight, and a bottle in the face cost him some of the vision in one eye. "That's my badge a stupidity." It took a few years, but with the help of a wife, O'Brien eventually found a life in construction management (making inventions on the side, none as yet patented...
Keillor learned to harmonize when he was a boy singing hymns with his family, and he does a lot of singing on the show. Butch Thompson, who plays clarinet and barroom piano, and Peter Ostroushko, who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, are regulars on the show, and Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Scottish Folk Singer Jean Redpath, Fiddler Johnny Gimble and a great many others are irregulars. Keillor's tastes are dizzyingly eclectic, though he cherishes what he calls "an irrational distaste for banjos and a normal dislike of operatic sopranos...
...known in their slang as waddies) and ranchers. "If you got to talking to most cowboys, they'd admit they write 'em," says Knox. "I think some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches around write poetry." The first poem Knox penned more than a decade ago describes a barroom brawl he lost, and he's been at it ever since...
...terror and under pursuit. He begins at the dawn of man and witnesses the arrival of aliens who zap the dumb apes with higher consciousness. Uninterested in such goings on he goes to sleep and somehow wakes up in the early twenty-first century. Soon he goes from barroom oddity to household pet to valuable commodity. Escaping it all, he falls asleep and wakes up during the apocalypse where he soon becomes a meal for a mutant. It's sort of cute, but its arbitrary storyline robs it of the chance to become any sort of allegory. Since...
Dennis P. Eichhorn's "Real Stuff" (Swifty Morales Press; 208 pp.; $19.95) collects highlights from the mid-'90s series of the same name. Part of an autobio boomlette of the time, Eichhorn's stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...