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An Archtype That’s a Prison Scott Archer Jones Too Easy Drill Sergeant The cynic puts all human actions into two classes: openly bad and secretly bad. – Henry Ward Beecher I’ve been pondering Archtypes lately. Cynic, Burnout, Conspiracy Theorist, Angry White Man, Entitled Influencer. When I was twenty, I encountered my first full-blown, two-hundred horsepower cynic. A history major, he could twist anything into an observation of sneering skepticism. He wore black, for C

Scott Archer Jones 2008. On the seafloor of the Stockholm archipelago near Ingarö the tides swept a body not yet dead back and forth, in eddies of dust that tornadoed up into black, cold water. Jazz had missed its chance again. Each decade gifted people kick jazz down the road like a can, people like Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Herbie Hancock, the Brecker Brothers. These incredible musicians keep it alive and vibrant, but don't change the rules, just commit little adulte

Scott Archer Jones Psychic Preparation: When you have only one party a year, you can commit the huge errors that a practiced host and hostess so facilely avoid, including human tragedy and charges of involuntary manslaughter. The first time that we served these lethal margaritas, we also served tens of pounds of food, all to no avail. By the end of the evening, the floor was sticky with lime juice, one Stiffel lamp had been destroyed, we had a conga line that dead-ended in th