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1980s
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February 3, 2005John Moe’s Pop Song Correspondences: A Letter Between Siblings Who Lived in the House Described in “Our House” by Madness
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January 24, 2005Famous Names Rewritten in a World Greatly Influenced by the Main Character of a 1982 Disney Movie
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October 7, 2004Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen
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June 4, 2004Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: “Don’t Give Up” by Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush
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May 12, 2004Local Radio Station’s “’80s Hour” Wants a Second Chance
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April 12, 2004Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby’s Songbook: Listen to the Lyrics Or Ronald Reagan and James Lourenco: I’m Just Burning Doing the Neutron Dance
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February 9, 2004Shakespearean Magnet Poetry and ’80s Hair Bands
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November 18, 2003Inaugural Speeches from Our Action Heroes
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October 10, 2003Things for Which I Was Either Reprimanded or Outright Suspended Without Pay When I Was a Teenage Universal Studios Hollywood Tour Guide in the Late Eighties
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July 21, 2003Questions for VH1’s “I Love the Eighties” Expert Celebrity Commentators
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