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On 101Xmas Party at Emo’s

by Jon Ray on December 17, 2008

I listen to top-40 radio, read People Magazine, eat at McDonald’s and own an SUV. I’ve never discovered a band before the rest of the world and it’s likely I never will. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy good music. I pride myself in picking friends who make it their life’s work to learn about every seventeen year-old who’s ever picked up a guitar. Thus, I know good music by association.

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Before you can understand how my car was stolen and how it was recovered in a high speed chase in Hillsboro, TX this weekend, you first have to understand how crack-cocaine came to be. You see, some unethical, would-be marketing genius started peddling cocaine in tiny little quantities around his local scene in the early [...]

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NetParty - Are you nerd enough?

by Jon Ray on February 25, 2008

*Dustin Doering, John Erik Metcalf, Bianca Malinowski & Jon Ray do some “networking.”
The drizzle coming from above head is accumulating on the shoulders of my plaid sport jacket. This wouldn’t upset me so much had it not just come from the dry cleaners only hours before. I’m whining while watching a bouncer meticulously study my [...]

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Social media changed the way I fall in love

by Jon Ray on February 19, 2008

I walk into a chain bookstore’s coffee shop and step up to the counter where a teenager that would obviously rather be somewhere else greets me with lackluster enthusiasm. I order a non-fat latte in a monotone voice, then notice a cute girl sitting within earshot, so I offer with more personality to the barista, [...]

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