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Where Have All The Children Gone
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler Editor’s Note: Since Wayne’s still convalescing, Weekly Hubris offers up yet another of his early columns for the –zine. ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—Anyone who has been to Anchorage,…
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Grandma Mergler Goes To Vegas
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler (Columnist Wayne Mergler, First Class, is still on the DL, so I’m running his tribute to his Vegas Showgirl Spouse yet again. EB-H) ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—12/11/11—She has…
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Confessions of a Luddite: Nothing that Bleeps in MY Stocking, Thank You!
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler Editor’s Note: Still on the mend after open-heart surgery, Wayne’s not yet up to posting brand new columns, so we’ll just have to make do with past…
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Living In The Age Of Pornography
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler Editor’s Note: While Wayne’s recuperating from open-heart surgery, we are running some of his early columns. ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—11/14/11—A couple of years ago, when I was working…
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The Inevitable Penis Column
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler Wayne Mergler is still on temporary medical leave: this column originally ran in 2010, but who can resist reading it again: I couldn’t. The Editor ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly…
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Magic from The East: Those Arabian Nights
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergle ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—10/3/11—Charles Dickens claimed it was his favorite book in all the world and that it was single-handedly responsible for his wanting to be a writer.…
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The Vanishing Storyteller
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—9/5/11—The late, wonderful Eudora Welty wrote in her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, that she learned to be a writer mainly by listening, as a child,…
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Nomenclature Blues
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—8/22/11—While browsing at the local mall this week, I came upon a display of personally monogrammed pens and novelty license plates for bicycles and other…
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Playing “Ain’t It Awful?”
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—8/1/11—Recently, I had a conversation with a guy in the bookstore where I work. He was an elderly tourist, from somewhere in the Midwest, and…
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The Alaskan Way Of Death
Above The Timberline by Wayne Mergler ANCHORAGE Alaska—(Weekly Hubris)—7/18/11—An old friend—Bev—died back in January of this year. I attended her funeral then and the family’s visitation. Tomorrow, she is going to be buried…