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Article: A love song to a hot tomato; Here, you can stand on the salsa and reach the stars.(VARIETY)(BACKFENCE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 28, 2005
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Byline: James Lileks; Staff Writer
Me: You know what I love about America?
Readers (in a bored but indulgent voice, resigned to reading the next few inches to see if it's interesting, after which they'll move on to the TV grid to look for an anodyne palliative to the boredom of the workday week): No, what. What do you love about America?
Me: Well, the fact that I can use "anodyne palliative" in a major newspaper, for starters. It means something empty that dulls the pain, which, in this context, would be existential. But I also love salsa. Listen up. In America, anyone can come out with a line of salsa. And they probably will. In the future, ...