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Decameron Tale VIII – The dying cowboy’s tale: he wasn’t shot; he was dying of an untreated STD
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Don’t expect an appreciative smile when you start singing “As I walked down the streets of Laredo”
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Decameron Tale VII – Uncle Billy’s Tale: the road map to an ill-gained bounty of buried treasure under Lake Falcon
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Dr. Norman Baker’s border radio station racked up profits in bogus weight loss and cancer cures
Decameron Tale VI – Chief Seattle and Ted Perry’s Tale
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It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. How’s the planet done in the last half century?
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Decameron Tale IV – The Timothy Leary trial put Laredo on the map in 1966: the world had come to town
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The trial took five days, the verdict 15 minutes
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Decameron Tale III – Larry’s tale: the buzzards for the filming of McMurtry’s Hud in Amarillo were Laredo zopilotes
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The imported buzzards were wired to the tree branches, tried to fly away, and dangled upside down
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Decameron Tale II: The short, unhappy life of my self-inflicted mullet
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One of the falling dominos in this disaster was the image of Rod Stewart rocking one of the first mullets
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The Laredo Decameron: tales in the time of quarantine
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As we stick together by staying apart, there is more time to think or pray or read
Culture
REVIEW: The Scandal of the Century is to the world-famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, as a cocktail party’s hors d’oeuvres are to a five-course holiday banquet, both treats
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García Márquez’s story gold: as we read these texts, we accept it with gratitude
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“The Incident at Laredo”: faulty assessment of nuke en route from Cuba
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When your life was hanging in the balance, you gasped a forbidden word you learned as a child. It could have been your dying word.