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You can tell normalcy is making a comeback when the talk of the town turns to coyotes.

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Robert DuncanDecember 15, 2016coyote, grief, travel, Amsterdam, small town, Northern California, Fairfax California, restaurant
Center of the Universe (27)
Center of the Universe (27)

Joy to the world?

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Robert DuncanDecember 8, 2016Chelsea Faith, Travis Hough, Oakland Fire, Ghostship Fire, EDM, friendship, Fairfax California, Northern California, grief
Center of the Universe (26)
Center of the Universe (26)

It may be where the heart is, but it’s also where history, judgment, anxiety, lawyers and distant cousins of the decedent are.

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Robert DuncanNovember 29, 2016holidays, holidays hate, anti-Christmas, anti-Thanksgiving, family, Fairfax California
Center of the Universe (25)
Center of the Universe (25)

He’s Dave Bergman. And you — to your eternal chagrin — are not. Simple as that.

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Robert DuncanNovember 24, 2016trumpet, hepcat, gerontology, jazz, Fairfax California, restaurant, memory loss
Center of the Universe (24)
Center of the Universe (24)

I talk a big game when it comes to lasagna. But, to tell the unbaked truth, I think I eat more of Sonia’s spaghetti these days.

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Robert DuncanNovember 18, 2016lasagna, meatball, sausage, picky eater, sausage factory, Amsterdam, restaurant, Northern California, Bay Area
Center of the Universe (23)
Center of the Universe (23)

First text this morning — early, Amsterdam time — came as I was fitfully dozing between acts of a CNN dream-play about the apocalypse.

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Robert DuncanNovember 10, 20162016 election, Trump, isolationism, walls, empire, America, Bay Area, Amsterdam
Center of the Universe (22)
Center of the Universe (22)

Eventually, in Amsterdam, you get up from the blank wall.

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Robert DuncanNovember 4, 2016Amsterdam, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, names, hippies, coincidence, bars
Center of the Universe (21)
Center of the Universe (21)

We’ve been holed up here a week. Superannuated gangsters of something or other, gone to the mattresses.

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Robert DuncanOctober 26, 2016Amsterdam, Sandy Pearlman, Blue Oyster Cult, grief
Center of the Universe (20)
Center of the Universe (20)

Sonia made lasagna. And all night people who’d never been to Sorellas, didn’t know from the chef sister, saying: Man, that is delicious.


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Robert DuncanOctober 18, 2016Sandy Pearlman, wake, Blue Oyster Cult, Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Bay Area, comfort food, lasagna, The Tip, family, rock music, heavy metal
Center of the Universe (19)
Center of the Universe (19)

“’Cause he gets up in the morning, And he goes to work at nine.”

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Robert DuncanOctober 13, 2016local politics, school board, campaign, growing up, Fairfax California, Bay Area
Center of the Universe (18)
Center of the Universe (18)

The stages of adulthood for a guy constitutionally unsuited to it begin, of course, with fraud.

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Robert DuncanOctober 6, 2016growing up, local politics, school board, mortgage, credit card, Bay Area, Fairfax California
Center of the Universe (17)
Center of the Universe (17)

I once ran into Huey Lewis jogging. The guy who did “I Want a New Drug.”

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Robert DuncanSeptember 28, 2016roadies, Fairfax California, Merl Saunders, Michael Jackson, moving, Huey Lewis, Grateful Dead, Robert Cray, Sean Penn, Tupac, Todd Rundgren, Van Morrison, Big Brother and the Holding Company
Center of the Universe (16)
Center of the Universe (16)

“HOFFMAN JACKED ON PCP! CALL FAIRFAX PD! BE THERE AT 8.”

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Robert DuncanSeptember 22, 2016texting, restaurant, marriage, friendship, family, Fairfax California, Bay Area, reservations
Center of the Universe (15)
Center of the Universe (15)

Sandy wants to know — again — if the salmon is wild.

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Robert DuncanSeptember 15, 2016restaurant, wild salmon, sturgeon, Brooklyn, Blue Oyster Cult, Sandy Pearlman, Bay Area, Fairfax California
Center of the Universe (14)
Center of the Universe (14)

The sisters aren’t sure. And that uncertainty, along with their essential modesty, was reflected in the night’s celebration.

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Robert DuncanSeptember 8, 2016anniversary, restaurant, sisters, Fairfax California, Bay Area, dive bar
Center of the Universe (13)
Center of the Universe (13)

“I got a rich guy carrying my stuff!”

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Robert DuncanAugust 31, 2016Brides of Funkenstein, George Clinton, P-Funk, Prince, guitarist, singer, funk, Brownsville Station, blues, Johnny Otis Show, Sly and the Family Stone, restaurant, Fairfax California, Bay Area
Center of the Universe (12)
Center of the Universe (12)

“In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer”

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Robert DuncanAugust 25, 2016Halloween, fatherhood, costume, work, Fairfax California, Bay Area
Center of the Universe (11)
Center of the Universe (11)

When a man in San Francisco leapt from 22 stories and almost landed on me, I scrambled to the family table.

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Robert DuncanAugust 18, 2016suicide, jumper, San Francisco, religion, consolation, lasagna, Fairfax California, Bay Area
Center of the Universe (10)
Center of the Universe (10)

In the redwood shadows at the far end of Wood Lane in the small Northern California town residents call Mayberry on Acid stand a dozen horses.

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Robert DuncanAugust 10, 2016Van Morrison, Tupelo Honey, Janet Planet, horses, stables, photography, seventies, Fairfax California, Bay Area, rock history
Center of the Universe (9)
Center of the Universe (9)

It’s not always Saturday night at Sorellas, you know. And that’s just the kind of crap that ticks him off.

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Robert DuncanAugust 3, 2016accordion, restaurant, quartermaster, Sandy Pearlman, Blue Oyster Cult, Brown-Eyed Girl, Ob-La-Di, Bert Berns, Rodney Dangerfield, Fairfax California, Bay Area
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