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The strangest gig I never got

The strangest gig I never got

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Michael Barclay
Feb 19, 2023
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Hey, paid subscribers. It’s been three months since I launched this experiment, and thanks to your encouragement it’s been going really well. Among other things, it’s been liberating to write non-time-sensitive material on my own deadlines, and about entirely whatever I want to champion. Thank you for your time and for your faith in my writing.

To celebrate, let me tell you about why I can relate to the producer of one of the biggest Canadian albums in history, and the time I almost got splattered with blood while playing a Billy Joel song in a Netflix show.

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