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Stray Cast: Shortest ever, Lou Reed

By Sun-Times Wire

It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

After all, this Web log is named for the Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.

Here’s today’s (the shortest ever):

Lou Reed/Buck Perry.

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