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1980s Gems on Streaming TV
Big budget films and CGI may grab audience attention, but some vintage films go where modern movies try paying homage to but fear to...

Jason James Barry
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Revisiting the MLK Dream | GPR Editorial
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr… The need for his words rings truer and louder now, in times when divides by race have been grasped and...

GPR Editorial
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SAT Saturday
I never thought about suicide when I was in high school, but I was miserable. After waxing euphoric from the great expectations set at...

Jason James Barry
4 min read


Newsom Mandates Masks (Again) in Bid for New Recall | HEAVEdaily
HEAVEdaily | Lampoon News — California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have waited for his new-and-improved mandate to take effect to again...

HEAVEdaily
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The Far End of the Bench
1989. Timing then was everything. And I found then, time was running out. Waiting until the end of next spring to get a varsity letter — in track no less — wasn’t going to cut it. I found myself calculating when I could get custody of an actual letter — sewn on my jacket — in time to be seen actually wearing it. It would have to be fall or early spring or of course in winter. But by the time track season would end and award ceremonies came around in the warmth of late spring

Jason James Barry
5 min read


Allegory in Victimness | HEAVEdaily
In 1994, when I was wrapping up as an undergrad, I wrote what would turn out to be a handful of “commentary” columns for the college...

HEAVEdaily
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Riverdale: The Back-In-Their-Day Comparison
The cast of Riverdale surely is stocked with hotties. And Season 3’s “Griffins and Gargoyles” flashback plot line had Archie, Jughead,...

Jason James Barry
4 min read


Jussie Smollett & the Lies by Association
It more than borders on ridiculousness that the salacious and largely implausible account went as far as it did. But when actor Jussie...

syZmc Commentary
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A Verdict in Kenosha
On a Friday in 2021, in late November, a jury arrived at a verdict in Kenosha. For those who don’t know headlines from the saga, a...

Jason James Barry
3 min read


Days That Break Bad | DEA Daze
Agents like to recall the great days. Takedown days. The days that lead to the capture or big seizure. Less so of the long days on...

GPR Editorial
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Verified.org - Elderly Targeted in Sweepstakes Scams
Prattlon is teaming up with San Diego-based watchdog organization Verified(.org) in sharing its content to help people avoid fraud...

GPR News
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Verified.org - Extortion Schemes: How Scammers Impersonate Law Enforcement & What To Do
Prattlon is teaming up with San Diego-based watchdog organization Verified.org in sharing its content to help people avoid fraud schemes....

GPR News
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In The Name of Hyperbole & The Failed Recall of Gavin Newsom
Once the tallies were in, and they arrived swiftly, almost within an hour or so of polls closing, the hope for change in California...

Jason James Barry
3 min read


The Where Were You Day
I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

Jason James Barry
3 min read


The Tenuous Tenure of Gavin Newsom | GPR Editorial
A casual weekend drive along Pacific Coast Highway 101, mid morning, in San Diego’s North County harkens to a vibrance and fitness that...

GPR Editorial
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Dancing and Romancing (redo) | Jason J. Barry, Record-Journal staff
Originally published 2/27/2001 — Record-Journal Writer's Note: As a newspaper journalist early in my career, I wrote "Dancing and...

Jason James Barry
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A Grievance to My 1983 Junior High
To the 1983 Science Department of East Lyme Junior High: This was the year my sixth-grade science teacher was being quite literal in his...

HEAVEdaily
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Justice, In The Name of The Mob
Derek Chauvin is immediately unlikeable. Just by the looks of him. It’s the perceptibly arrogant sneer and the rise of his eyebrow on his...

GPR Editorial
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The Drive Home Tapes - Essay Series Finale
Sometimes I sleep twice. I try to trick my wife into thinking we have a normal life and let her fall asleep with me with her. In my last...

Jason James Barry
5 min read


The Drive Home Tapes - Essay Series (3 of 4)
On the drives home, I had started making monologues, recorded self-conversations, thoughts on the night, the crazy shit and quiet. The...

Jason James Barry
4 min read
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