Thoughts On Old Hippos

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Jeff L. Howe

Location: Strasburg, Pennsylvania,
Birthday: April 19

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Bio: Jeff Howe is a bonsai enthusiast and harmonica player who has very good reason to believe that the Universe tastes like a cheap buck-fifty melon. He is a product of Walled Lake and a former Poetry Slam Champion of Milwaukee. He once shook hands with Rocky Colavito, opened for Leon Redbone and took a piss next to Mose Allison (no hands were shaken). All things considered, his best single day was July 4th, 1987 when he marched in the Marmarth, North Dakota parade in the morning, discovered a rare dinosaur skull in the afternoon, and then sat in playing harmonica with a drunken cowboy band until way past tomorrow. It's been downhill ever since. Jeff is a misemployed geologist who specializes in interpreting rock outcrops at 70 miles per hour. It's a gift. His daughter loves cows. ................................................................................................................... FOR MORE STORIES, PHOTOS AND HARMONICA RECORDINGS VISIT: jeff-howe.net

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AUGUST 6, 2012 9:29AM

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hippo

Last week the internet reached out and told me that the world’s oldest zoo-born hippopotamus had passed away in Europe. At the time of its death it was sixty-one years old.

I sit here reflecting upon the fact that I am now older than every single zoo-born hippo in the world.

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