Author: Bo Bryan
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72 Summers in the Land of Shag
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Come the summer of 2015, the Shag, the legendary dance of the South, will celebrate it’s 72nd anniversary of conception. It came to pass in June of 1943 that Race…
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Cure For Lazy Legs
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In The Land of Shag the night is young forever. Along the coast of the Carolinas, shag dancing is nightlife for an increasing number of Baby Boomers who refuse to…
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May I have This Dance?
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If you’re in love, love to dance, or you’re alone, looking for a partner; if fifty years ago, you married your high school sweetheart and haven’t danced since senior prom.…
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The Wonder of the Crush
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I love showing people something good they haven’t seen before. It’s an unsung pleasure of life introducing a new experience. In the bargain, as a veteran, you’re given a fresh…
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Horizontal Desire
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“Dancing is a vertical expression of horizontal desire,” said Robert Frost, maybe America’s most famous poet. The first time I heard that line quoted I wondered who said it first.…
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Ride the Knife
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Ride the knife is lesson one on the hustle. Then beware the blade. How long you ride is relevant. You slip and slide the longer you ride and cut yourself…
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President’s Day Pussy
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Poem for Candidates To aspire and arrive to lead a nation is an honorable ambition impossible to attain for a pussy. We bestow the office on little men who sit…
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Absent Valentine
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Dearest absent Valentine, What’s in your heart when love is out of town? Depends how long it lasts, given love’s condition leaving. One heart stays, the other goes; in…
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Kosher Hand-Eye Coordination
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THE KOSHER HAND THAT FED ME The other night I had dinner at the Jerusalem Cafe, a new restaurant in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a town that supposedly has more…