This is a tentative return of The Lounge. I let the other blog die on the vine nine months ago because I got fed up with Blogspot and because hardly anyone ever read it, except for this crazy guy from Kentucky who scared the shit out of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a tentative return of The Lounge. 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