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The Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity. We didn’t actually do anything in Cincinnati: just twisted the dial around in search of a station we could pretend was the legendary WKRP. I was going to write a big appreciation of that seminal sitcom here, but figured it might be [...]

Our crash pad on the first night out of Canada was Renee’s Ponderosa Bungalow in Columbus, Ohio. Renee is a pop culture history chick (and I use “chick” in the empowering sense) with a Wonder Woman fetish whose own personal superpower appears to be ecstatic enthusiasm about everything. She didn’t seem to mind us visiting. [...]

Bobby: No, Mr. Gorgenchuck, I will not stop rockin’ in your classroom. You’re sittin’ there telling me about the food chain, well, how about the rock chain? Instead of a cow at the top there’s, like, maybe a guitar. Cause Mr. Gorgenchuck, if I don’t feel free to rock, be it here or anywhere, you [...]

Oh, sure, it may not garner the same media hoopla as a Rhode Island or an Idaho, but Ohio has a lot more going for it than you think. When written in capitals, its name is symmetrical along the x-axis–can Delaware say that? Ohio was the setting for Family Ties, WKRP in Cincinatti, and Mr. [...]