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Richard Marx And New Friends

On a sightly less serious or perhaps esoteric note than the tribulations of Brett Kavanaugh (http://theunfilteredpodcast.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-strange-case-of-brett-kavanaugh.html) and Vaclav Havel (http://theunfilteredpodcast.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-romanticists-revolution.html), I want to regale you with the story of how my otherwise placid Saturday burst with surprise and new experiences. A few weeks ago, I was at Pizza Luce in Hopkins,MN doing some writing. I believe it was the "Love Letter To Literature" piece (http://theunfilteredpodcast.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-love-letter-on-literature-and-poetry.html) . Writing is never quite so joyous as when accompanied by an evening libation. Hemingway said to "write drunk and edit sober", so, following this injunction, I had the obligatory beer in hand. Being the compulsively social person I am, I struck up a conversation with two lovely people who later introduced themselves as Mike and Maggie. "M&M",