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The ADD writeblog
What's going on?I'm Alan David Doane, radio broadcaster since 1986, husband and father of two. On my main website, Comic Book Galaxy, I mostly write criticism and commentary about the artform and...
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My Life in Comics
How a 6-year-old with tonsilitis ends up 35 years later as a comic book critic."You write good rant," comics retailer Brian Hibbs said about me once; it would be disingenuous not to note that he went...
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An Evening with James Kochalka Superstar
An Evening with James Kochalka SuperstarTuesday, August 17th, 2004The Burlington, Vermont booksigning event for James Kochalka's new American Elf collection was held at Crow Books, an intimate new and...
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The View from One Year
What happened here? As the New York sunset disappeared...Today marks the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. I remember vividly, as I am sure you do, where I was and what I...
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A Piece of Me
Just a dad getting his kids off to school, one cold winter morning. Written January 9th, 2004.This morning was quite unusual for me. I saw my children off to school.I'm going to be 38 years old later...
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Cyst
Have you ever had a problem that grew on you?Around 1998 I noticed this hard little spot in the center of my chest, like an M&M just under the skin. If I touched it with my fingertip, I could move...
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Fighting for Foreskin
Would you let doctors cut off part of your child's penis for no real reason at all?In 1995, my wife and I discovered (by accident, courtesy of a sloppy ultrasound technician) that we were going to have...
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Justice, Sacrifice and Amadou Diallo
Remembering an innocent man and the incompetent police that took his life.One of the reasons our society here in the United States of America so honours its veterans, and to a lesser extent its police...
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The Rise and Fall of My Red Car
The short life and quick death of one man's favourite automobile.It was July, 1999. The car salesman looked at my credit history and other information, and came up with a financing figure; we went out...
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If I Ran for President
One man's stand on the issues. Bring your torches and pitchforks and meet us at his house tomorrow at dawn.Another Presidential election is pending in the United States, and I am forced to wonder if...
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Diabetic Again
Feels like the first time; feels like the very first time.I recently experienced a bit of a health scare -- I won't go into the gory details, but something happened one afternoon that sent me...
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An Interview with James Howard Kunstler
In 2000, the noted author and social critic spoke in Glens Falls, New York. I was there and spoke to him about the state of the world. It was bad then; it's worse now.On Tuesday, July 11th, 2000, I was...
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Written Thursday, June 2nd, 2005It was twenty years ago this September that we first met, when you were the music director of our college radio station. I remember you got sick not long after we met,...
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The End of the World
It’s the end of the world, but only as we know it. How do you feel?The end of the world is nigh. I don't think we'll be wiped out by space aliens, overtaken by zombies or even destroyed in an all-out...
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Me and Tom Snyder
Remembering a brief love affair with TV's Tom Snyder.Tom Snyder, who died this week at the age of 71, will likely be best remembered for one of two things; either his groundbreaking late-night Tomorrow...
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Completely at Ease: An Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Conducted by Alan David Doane.IntroductionOn August 2nd, 2007 author James Howard Kunstler sat down with me for what turned out to be a wide-ranging discussion about his career, the state of the nation...
View ArticleA Letter to Dan
41 Talking to 19On August 19th, 2007 I wrote this farewell letter to a 19 year old co-worker who was leaving the radio station to continue his college education and move on to his second job in radio....
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Taking the “I” Out of IntimacyYesterday, an acquaintance of mine told me about some serious difficulties she had been having. She clearly been through hell in the past month or so, but we’ve always...
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"Portentous" is the only word that seems to suit the slate-gray colour of the skies over upstate New York today. There's a chill in the air and it looks like it very badly wants to snow, but it's not...
View ArticleLike Every Other Night
Like every other night, he awoke around midnight and needed very badly to pee. And as he also did every night, he cursed the choice he made years earlier to take the first-floor bedroom, ceding to the...
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