Archive for August, 2011
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011I have never been into cars; I’ve sat in them, and I’ve snuck into drive-in theaters tucked into a trunk, but I’ve never been ‘into’ cars. Not like some people anyway. In high school I owned a 1964 Chevy Impala 409. Listing those particulars reminds me that car hobbyists are similar to Starbucks regulars with [...]
Space Traveler
Sunday, August 21st, 2011Space Traveler I read somewhere that the early astronauts where crammed into the Gemini space capsules like the last piece of a child’s rudimentary wooden jigsaw puzzle: the entire three-state west coast as a single component could settle into only one place properly, the same for Alan Shepard. My mind drifts to thoughts of astronaut [...]
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