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Kurt Cobain in Aberdeen, WA locations

Posted on January 18, 2012 by peter bell

The first time I heard Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it was on MTV.  My mother had gotten cable to watch The Gulf War (thanks, CNN!) and MTV was part of the package.  For any younger readers, MTV used to show music videos almost exclusively back then, before the The Real World proved wildly successful in […]

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Steve Jobs Locations: Part 2: Starting a Global Corporation 101

Posted on January 6, 2012 by peter bell

After returning from India, Steve Jobs settled into the culture of computing in a burgeoning Silicon Valley.  Steve Wozniak had taken a job at Hewlett-Packard (HP), while simultaneously working on his design for a new computer that would become the Apple I.  Both Jobs and Woz were attending meetings at the Homebrew Computer Club at […]

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Locations of Charles Bukowski

Posted on November 22, 2011 by peter bell

Called “a laureate of American low life” by Time magazine, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was a prolific poet and writer.  His subject matter was often drawn from his own storied existence: work drudgery, drunkenness, sex, gambling, and the craft of writing.  Uncompromising and confrontational, Bukowski’s style of writing has been categorized as “transgressive fiction” or “dirty […]

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