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EMINEM: TACOMA DOME, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6TH We’re stuck in traffic on the I-5. Cars back up for a half-mile or so, all of us trying to get to the Tacoma Dome for the Anger Management Tour, featuring a handful of hip-hop acts, the loathsome Papa Roach and the reason we’re here: Eminem. It is here on the freeway that it sinks in: We are surrounded by teenagers and will continue to be for the next four hours. Blue Skyy Vodka bottles are strewn along the side of the freeway, evidence that youngsters...

THE WHO AT THE GORGE: August 19, 2000 When I was eleven (way back in the dawn of the Eighties) my best friend Casey and I began to share an intense obsession with the Who and particularly with Pete Townshend. This preoccupation with Townshend and his music was something that fed our young souls, drove us to Beatlemania-like hysteria and grew to define us as individuals for those all-too-torturous adolescent years. We had rituals and ceremonies that lent our obsession structure and importance....

Childbirth: excruciating, messy, joyous. Like writing.

Dread cliche stay away another day.

My brother is obsessed with excrement. Specifically with his own, although his interest does extend to his wife’s and his newborn son’s as well. If Laura would allow it, Curt would probably examine her shit each morning and then lecture or praise her based on his assessment. “It’s floating! That’s great, honey!” he’d say, kissing her on the cheek while she washed her hands. Or “Better ask Carmen to pick up some broccoli and prunes, I don’t think you’re getting enough fiber. This looks too den...