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Jim Latham's avatar

Soupy Sales reminded me of Jack Driscoll’s “wanting only to be heard” a collection of short stories set in N Michigan. Good stuff of the “literary” bent, whatever exactly that means.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Soupy was a legend around here

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Some of my musician buddies know his son, Hunt. Played with Iggy and Bowie

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V Moire's avatar

This was so funny. It felt like i laughed a hundred different times. I know I'll have to read it a few times to "get" all the names, but I absorbed all the Detroit references--real and imagined--immediately.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Always makes me happy to make people laugh

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Joe's avatar

You didn't miss much on this one! Whither thou ghost.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I skewered a few deserving, favorite targets.

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Joe's avatar

This was a rollicking fun one definitely for you!

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Melissa Walsh's avatar

The street names 😂

Only Detroiters can imagine cruising streets with those names in fiction land.

Such a imaginative work, Jimmy.

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Patty Mallett's avatar

I knew we were in trouble with “Wayne Fontes Avenue.” Fun.

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Molly Graham's avatar

This one is a wild ride!

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Hoobie's avatar

I did it !!! Thank you !!! I want to join Gurgle

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I would baptize you but I struggle to make people moist

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