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You know that dream that all adults have of being stuck back in Grade School again?  I sort of had a variation on that overnight:

I was handled an examination pamphlet I was supposed to have done back in childhood.  Only I had never seen it before and all the responses inside it were blank.  And then I found a note inside it from my teacher that ( Read more... )

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In the 1976/'77 scholastic year, I was a C student.  Except for my two worst subjects: Handwriting and Art, in which I was a D student.

GetTV was showing the 1960s Jason And The Argonauts just now.  It's weird that when I saw it in theater when I was a kid that I was so awed by the effects.  I still see the genius in it, even though now it's painfully obvious how it was done.

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In 1977, the only night of the week on which NONE of the three major U.S. television networks showed a feature film in Prime-Time was TUESDAY.

A couple weeks ago at the Knoxville IPMS meeting, a fellow member was clearing out his closet of old periodicals and some of us got to divvying the pieces among them.  When I saw that he had old issues of War Monthly and True War among them, I shamelessly scooped up as much of those as I could.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of May 29, 2014
"Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?" Those are questions Louise Gluck asks in her poem "Prism." Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That's what I wish for you right now, ( Read more... )

In the summer of 1979, we moved again from Pittsburgh to the Tampa Bay area. The second TV was placed in a "Florida room" of the house, that was originally designed as a garage but never actually built as such. After some months of sharing a bedroom with my brother I somehow persuaded my parents into replacing the old sofa in the Florida room ( Read more... )