Scott Robinson
Cereal Box Singles (1970)
Throughout the Sixties, I was growing up in Garden Springs, a suburb of west Lexington, Kentucky – in a church-music-only home. During...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 1310 min read
Famous Fake Bands
Every now and then, you’ll hear a magnificent song you’ve never heard before – on the radio, maybe, or in a friend’s car – and be blown...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 232 min read
Fear of Quicksand
Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 222 min read
My Couch Pillow Fort: Or, the Importance of Avoiding Hot Lava
Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 222 min read
Six Degrees of Abbey Bartlet
So Jed met Mrs. Landingham in prep school, where his dad was the headmaster and she was dad’s secretary. That makes them the oldest...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 24, 20233 min read
Watching the World Burn: The Paradox of Infant Sorrow
It’s hard to recall the artistry and antics (it’s often hard to tell which is which) of Brit rocker Aldous Snow without also thinking of...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 17, 20234 min read
My First Beer
Owing to the title of this book, I suppose it’s only fair that I actually discuss beer, at least in passing. I was never much of a fan...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 11, 20232 min read
The New Conservatives
[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered. This attempt at a humor column reads pretty dated now; the concept of conservatism it...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 11, 20233 min read
Gunga Din in Schools
[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered] WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of an impromptu press conference...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 11, 20232 min read
They Might Be Giants
(Reprinted from the Courier-Journal, April 29, 1990) You’d have been willing to bet that every last person in the Bomhard Theater last...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20232 min read
129 Ways to Get a Husband!
Ladies, are you alone in this world? Don’t have a man? In danger of becoming a spinster, an old maid? Well, McCall’s magazine has just...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 16, 20233 min read
Bat-Villains
When I was a boy, grade-school-age, discovering Batman for the first time, I found his enemies thrilling. Out front was, of course, the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 11, 20233 min read
Mirror Universe Me
Those of us who are deeply into Star Trek are well-acquainted with the Mirror Universe, a kind of alternate reality that looks almost...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 21, 202312 min read
In Praise of Word Salad
Many are the modes of linguistic expression that brighten the human experience, from the evocative stirrings of sublime poetry to the...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 26, 20225 min read
My iPhone, in the Year 2401
So there’s this great episode of The Orville, which takes place in the 25th century, where a time capsule from the 21st has been dug up...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 10, 20224 min read
The Scrape
Many are the innovations that rock musicians have contributed to the art of the guitar - unquestionably more than have been rendered by...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 6, 20221 min read
That Cheap-Ass Barney Fife!
There’s a moment in the old Andy Griffith Show where Andy and Barney are talking about their plans for the weekend – Andy’s date with...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 6, 20222 min read
Merely???
Something has been bugging me for 43 years now. I feel it’s time to speak up, once and for all. It’s 1979. I’m sitting in the movie...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 7, 20223 min read
A Proper Nerd Vocabulary
Not all nerds are Word Nerds; but all Word Nerds are about… vocabulary. The Word Nerd loves their words, and wants more. More. More! The...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 4, 20224 min read
The Nerd's Life-Long Accumulation of Random Information and Useless Knowledge
So I’m in the car and my two sons, Steve and Trey, are in the back seat. “The Federated States of Micronesia are actually 607 small...
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