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1 week ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
To Die Alone, Without A NameChristine McVie Finds The Joy In ItI don’t know when she made her choice. All my first glimpses of her were indistinct. A mottled white streak across a field, brie…
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1 week ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
flexes from long beach to texasHello everyone! Here’s hoping you are enjoying a nice quiet Sunday. It’s not the weekend for me — my new temp job includes a full shift on Sunday — so I already had the “Saturday scaries”, as opposed to the “Sunday scaries” you are perhaps experiencing today. Not to worry. We will get through it together.
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2 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
As I tell everyone who asks, having a successful Substack means being consistent and time-reliable. Sure enough, being late with this “Wednesday” post has already cost me one un-subscription this morning! As you’ll see below, however, I had at least one good reasonLast October my son, colloquially known on these pages as “The Commander”, came to me with a plan.
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2 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
“oh, we don’t need to talk about jack, he wasn’t that much taller or bigger than you.”I’m writing this to you from the future: Monday morning on the Hikari shinkansen traveling from Nagoya to Tokyo. When I was young I thought Japan was, in fact, the future, an impression reinforced by Blade Runner and, most criticially, Neuromancer. Yesterday afternoon …
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2 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
Good evening all — this post is a scrapbook of sorts for the elite among the elite. If you have any questions or want me to look at anything at Suzuka this weekend on your behalf, let me know. I'll be reading and responding to comments
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Jack Baruth
This spring, thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively men of a certain age and financial position, will drive their shiny new Escalades, Yukons, and Silverados to the local Harley-Davidson dealer to see a new-for-2025 motorcycle called the Pan America ST. An evocative name, to be sure, and one reinforced by the omnipresent U.S. flag imagery in H-D’s marketing, merchandise, and showroom displays.
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3 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
We are shifting the production schedule a bit this week to better suit my travel, for which I apologize. No racing updates from me, but feel free to cover your favorite series and I’ll pin as usual. Good news for all the Loopy’s Loonies members and other cat fanciers out there: Loopy is doing very well on her new heart medication and is currently available for adoption. If any of you have room for this blind but very friendly cat in your life, contact City Of Elderly Love.
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3 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
Eleven and a half years ago, I sold my 944 to the same person who’d talked me into buying it in the first place. The reader will be forgiven for not immediately realizing that my 2013 story on this event was about selling a 944, because clearly I had something else, or someone else, in mind:…the reality is that there are multiple problems that make a pe…
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3 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.com | Jack Baruth
…that you can’t pump-and-dump them on bring-a-trailerI’m putting my airmiles where my mouth is; having claimed that I would go to the Japanese GP if Red Bull would just do the decent thing and promote Yuki Tsunoda to the big leagues, I now find myself doing just that. For that reason, I’ll be pre-loading articles for the upcoming week and taking special…
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3 weeks ago | 
avoidablecontact.medium.com | Jack Baruth
Jack Baruth·Follow12 min read·--didn’t look like that when it disappearedFifteen months ago, during a looking-glass time of my life where I was unemployed, between real single-family homes, and just sorta spiraling into a fathomless abyss of self-pity, the human garbage who worked at this Public Storage almost certainly conspired to rob me of about $30,500 in musical instruments and stereo equipment via a coordinated inside job.
