Category: Bill Shea
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A drunken driver killed my sister 23 years ago. I am finally writing about it.
After putting it off for a couple of decades, I finally have written an elegy for my late sister. She should have turned 60 this year, but died at age 37 in 2002. And that sucks.
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Asstastic: The Butt Stuff Chronicles
I had my third colonoscopy since 2021 today and while it’s not fun, this form of butt stuff has saved my life. So I explain in gruesome detail how it all went (with mentions of Lou Reed, Jimmy Buffett, and the New York Jets).
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America, land of moral perverts and moon pissers
Americans abandoned cars, bags of human shit, and golf balls on the moon, and back on Earth we’re abandoning democracy for a fascist white nationalist regime run by greedy sadistic dipshits.
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My annual ‘morbid’ birthday list of dead celebrities
Every year on my birthday, I assemble a list of celebrities/notables that died at the age I just surpassed. Not out of morbidity but because I cannot believe I have out-lived them. Today, I have officially out-lived Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and Tattoo!
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My long-lost Jimmy Buffett interview, found
I found the lost audio of my 2020 interview with Jimmy Buffett, meaning I could transcribe the unpublished portion of him talking about his pandemic time, recording an album that year, his music philosophy, and more
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If scumbag Pete Rose is going to Cooperstown, let’s radically remake baseball’s hall of fame
I am proposing a seriously unserious (maybe?) plan to open Cooperstown to all the criminals, degenerates, freaks, weirdness, scandals, and hilarity that make baseball a true reflection of America
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Goodbye, Andor. And thanks for all the lessons.
Season 2 of “Andor” exceeded my expectations and now the series is over. But our struggle is only beginning, and this well-made space drama is a guidebook for rebellion.
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Writer’s blockhead: Trump evils, horny popes, Triple-A Wrexham, and Buckaroo Banzai
To overcome writer’s block, I’ve unloaded my strange and broken mind in this newsletter that includes the usual Trump regime fascism complaints but also dieting, middle age, Shedeur Sanders, popes that fuck, stadium finance rip-offs, Francis Ford Coppola getting weird about piss, Canadian politics, Warren Zevon, Andor, and a wonderful batshit ’80s sci-fi movie
Unpaid Bills 