He liked to think of himself as able to pass for a guy with a bum leg, but it was a tougher sell in the summer. Waiting out the daytime sun and cutting through the air-conditioned casino hadn't been enough to overcome the heat of a triple digit day. And as/…

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FOR THOSE WHO DARE

Francis Richard Scobee: Commander, STS 51-L Michael Smith: Shuttle Pilot Judith Resnick: Mission Specialist, Robot Arm Operator Ronald Mc Nair: Payload Specialist, Satellite Launcher Gregory Jarvis: Mission Specialist, Satellite Design Study Ellison Onizuka: Mission Specia…

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How Many Birthdays Do You Have?



Some people celebrate for themselves more than once a year.

It might be on the anniversary of a profound religious experience which causes them to feel "born again." It might be a remembrance of the day they put a physical addiction or obsessive behavior away/…

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In hindsight it looks like they could've been connected, but what seems like a clear pattern now wasn't a child's numbered drawing to be completed without lifting pencil off paper, let alone the heavy lifting of proper interpretation.

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It takes some kind of balls for any man to cover a Joni Mitchell song.

My sister once asked me "What was the scariest movie you ever saw?"

My answer: "Beaches!"

She looked incredulous.

How could "The Friendship You'll Always Remember... In The Film You'll Never Forget" be my all-time scariest?

After all, it's the story of a privileged rich debutante Hilary Whitne…

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It's a soup... And a metaphor.


On one side of the street, a Mexican/Cuban restaurant offers tasty "albondigas" every day. On the other side, at the casino's cafe, it's part of a rotating soups of the day menu, as "meatball soup."

That's what it is, meatball soup from Mexico ... And the/…

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One of these days I'll post something worthy of this site.

Until then, I have a multi-media mashup available on Blogger.