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Fugue State: The City Where Medgar Evers Died

I only know Jackson from the two hours I spent awake there. I arrived at night and shot through the specter of downtown. It was boarded up, looked like another place in the area hit by a storm and never...

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Fugue State: Lying to Authority

Houston, Texas -----------> Jackson, Mississippi As I sped for probably 80% of the drive from Houston to New York, I constantly had to adapt the premeditated lie I would tell if pulled over on the highway. The lies would shift...

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Summer 2009: Introduction to Fugue State

Dissociative Fugue Disorder: When a person is in a fugue state, he'll pick up and travel suddenly to some random point, not at all sure why he's doing it, and sometimes with little memory of who he is. This summer...

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August Malaise.

Amish buggie on the Ohio/West Virginia border. More like I've been on the road. I finished my two-week Chicago residency and went east to Ann Arbor for a few days. I camped out in SE Ohio and spent a...

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On North Korea

I am not afraid to admit to having rescue fantasies that involve William Jefferson Clinton....

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