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More Popular Than Jesus: Night Beat Post 10
The other night, as I was revising this segment, I realized—in a way that hadn’t struck me the same before—how short the timespan was between the…
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Mikal Gilmore
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Life During Death Time: Night Beat Post 9
Life during the Kennedy death nights took place during 1963 and 1964—my years at Rowe Middle School Jr.
Jan 15
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Mikal Gilmore
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Black Jack: Night Beat Post 8
I began collecting records on June 2nd, 1967.
Jan 14
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Mikal Gilmore
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The Boundless Dark: Night Beat Post 7
MY FATHER DIED ON JULY 31, 1962.
Jan 13
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Mikal Gilmore
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Mercury and Death: Night Beat Post 6
AS A BOY, I’D WATCHED—or heard on the radio—the coverage of the 1960s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space missions, beginning with Alan Shepard’s Freedom…
Jan 12
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Mikal Gilmore
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The Kitten
My father had a publishing venture in the early 1960s, established in Portland, Seattle, and Tacoma.
Jan 9
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Mikal Gilmore
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Les Miserables
In the years after I was born, my father kept his own photo albums, and in those books he had almost exclusively photos of me.
Jan 8
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How the Collection Became a Problem
In 1969, when I determined to turn myself into a record collector, the truth is I had only enough albums to fill one packing box – about two hundred…
Jan 7
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Mikal Gilmore
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A Leap to Freedom
I want to thank my wife Elaine Schock for urging me to make this Substack feed happen.
Jan 6
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Night Beat Post 1
I was never happier than when I was dying.
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