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4/13/18: East Center St. Shenanigans (Part five, Weeding out the Weaklings)
Mark dumps the last of what had been a quarter bag, onto the cleaning tray and starts chopping up the lumpy shake into a finer consistency. Fine enough for all the "oneies" we need to [...]
4/12/18: East Center St. Shenanigans (Part four, Higher Education)
December 1977. Christmas break for those high school graduates who'd gone off to college. Those like our friend Mark. Yup, it was the end of the fall semester. But... nope, Mark would not be returning [...]
4/11/18: Cars and Dreams (Part fourteen, 200 kph)
The moment I cross the intersection, where north Broadway turns into highway 63, I shift down to third and gun it. The Fiat's hot little motor is made for this. It whirrs with delight as [...]
4/10/18: Almost Gone
We were so close I couldn’t see That everything was wrong I studied you now over me Myself and I went on and on On into the rest of life And love where they [...]
4/9/18: Cars and Dreams (Part thirteen, The Impossible Dream)
It's such a sad old feeling The fields are soft and green It's memories that I'm stealing But you're innocent when you dream ------ Tom Waits ---------------------------------------------- I think it was the other way round [...]
4/8/18: Mind the Beholder
"The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction." ----- Shylock from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespere ----------------------------------------------------- I do however, remember how I [...]