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    No One on the Basketball Moms Text Thread Laughed When I Compared Our Winless Season to Billy Joel’s “Goodnight Saigon”
    by Caroline Diggins
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    Decorative Wine Mom Signs to Promote the Vaccine
    by Lane Unsworth
  • June 9, 2020
    Billy Joel’s “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant That Closed Due to Coronavirus”
    by Tom Smyth
  • February 28, 2018
    Billy Joel Plays “Piano Man” for the First Time At the Bar He Based the Song On
    by Tom Smyth
  • June 15, 2016
    10 Billy Joel Song Titles That Are Also Answers You Give to the Insurance Adjuster Who Suspects You and Your Associates of Arson
    by Gustavo Turner
  • June 23, 2014
    Because I Said So
    by Marsh McCall
  • May 16, 2007
    John Moe’s Pop Song Correspondences: A Note Placed in the Pay Envelope of Billy “The Piano Man” Joel
    by John Moe
  • April 27, 2005
    What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano
    by Michael Ian Black
  • March 22, 2005
    The Lyrics to the Billy Joel Song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” If They Were Written by a Muskrat Instead of by Billy Joel
    by David Litt
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