Archive for March 2007
peculiarities of the place in which i grew up #4
Constant rumbling in one ear other the other — trapped water from the many hours lived in the swimming pool. This water often led to various ear and sinus infections, so the feeling of lying on a bed, with head dangling upside down, letting the antibiotic ear- or nose-drops properly get absorbed, is also a…
Read Morepeculiarities of the place in which i grew up #3
Peculiarities of living on the side of Camelback Mountain: The dentist’s castle. My house, on Saddlerock Drive, was directly below the mountain from Copenhaver Castle, built by a Phoenix orthodontist. I was a kid when it was being built, and my utter enchantment at the whole idea made me overcome my lack of adventurousness —…
Read Morepeculiarities of the place in which i grew up #2
A combo of dry desert air and deep seventies shag carpet led to constant, chronic, zingy static electricity. As an attempt to discharge the static and avoid the pop! dammit! zap, we flicked doorknobs, walls, and jambs before touching our tender handflesh to their surfaces. As a result, our fingers on the nail-side tended to…
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Read Morebuddy gonna shut you down
The latest bandwagon on which I’m jumping is simple, relatively painless, and very short term: I intend to live without my computer for 24 hours tomorrow, March 24. I mean, what the hey. I have a rare, insanely busy social schedule tomorrow (two birthday parties for four people? eh wot?) and my hand has been…
Read Morepeculiarities of the place in which i grew up #1
Bomb shelters! Quite a few underground dwellings (for cozy protection during the nuclear apocalypse) existed in Phoenix in the post-atomic heyday of the late 60s/early 70s. Ours was under our carport, accessed by a heavy iron door in the floor and a ladder leading down into a fantastic and very creepy room. It was outfitted…
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Read Morebreathless
At left is the AP feed that greeted me this afternoon on the San Francisco Chronicle‘s site. It makes it look like the West is still Wild! Crash torch smashed ba-bang! And that last one: did the men fall off the cliff onto the train tracks just as a train was passing by, causing it…
Read Morethe blood in my veins
I tend to forget that I have a lot of kinfolk in this county. My mother’s side of the family extends waaaay back into the early roots of what is now Camarillo, California. My grandparents had a lot of siblings and therefore I have a lot of second and third cousins, direct and once removed.…
Read Morethats my funday
Tonight, on America’s Funniest Home Videos (verbatim listing): Office bloopers include a man frightened by his coworkers’ fake bat and another whose tie gets stuck in a laminating machine. Ha ha! Oh, ha ha ha ha … {sob} Happy Sunday night, everyone! Good luck at work tomorrow! Photo: MSF0017, by ribarnica. Thanks for letting me…
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