From The Page 69 Test:

It’s funny, the Page 69 Test, because page 69 of Songs for the Missing is both representative and an anomaly. [read more]

From Backstory:

The summer I was 17, I worked at a camp in Northeast Ohio, on the Lake Erie shore.  I was courting the girl who would later become (and still is) my wife, and many nights we would be up late, watching the slow progress of the oreboats and gazing at the stars over the water. [read more]