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April 10, 2006One comment so far, add yours!

“I drink because I can’t write. And I can’t write because I’m drinking.” From Tampa Bay musician Ronny Elliott’s song “Jack’s St. Pete Blues” The Link Magazine editor, C. Baxter Carter, paints a brief portrait of author Jack Kerouac’s final years in an article titled, the end of the Road. Kerouac, most noted for his book, On [...]

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Any sane person wouldn’t be keen to drive between Northeastern Tampa and Clearwater Beach during rush hour unless they were forced to suffer this long commute for work. Yet I had to take this journey to accommodate my wife, a mortgage expert, so she could attend the grand unveiling of builder Taylor Woodrow’s [...]

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