Role Playing

Summer Block
5 min readMay 23, 2023
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A few days ago we were eating at our local breakfast taco place when the Brooks & Dunn song “Neon Moon” (1991) came on and I remembered with a start, “Oh yeah, that’s right, I LOVE this song.”

I tried to explain my brief flirtation with ’90s pop country music to my kids. I knew I had mentioned this phase in a column I wrote years ago, but when I tried to find it, I discovered the publication where it had appeared is long gone; their…

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Summer Block

Writer for Catapult, Longreads, The Awl, The Toast, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, and so on. Owner of After-Party Taxidermy. Working on a book about Halloween.