I remember when we used to go grocery shopping right after church1. One of the three grocery stores in town was open on Sundays, at least until one in the afternoon. There was a gas station that was open on Sundays, and 7-11 only had truncated hours. All that was left was the hardware store, which apparently did thriving business on Sundays ( Read more... )

The Pogues show on April 18, 1996 was not their best, but I got a hint or two that sosoclever might be as interested in me as I was in her. The next day, I called her and asked her to go to The Magnificent Ambersons' release of Ambersongs with me.


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Well, crap. Ray Harryhausen died today. He was 92.

In 1978, I was taking swimming lessons at the Somerville, NJ YMCA. After a couple years of swimming in the ocean off Salvador (I'm not sure that's the actual beach where we went, but it's close enough) all weekend every weekend for two years and living in Lake Stockholm all the other summers, I ( Read more... )

This is not a "Wanderlust" post. I'm just kind of bored and suffering from general malaise ( Read more... )

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( Ooh, look at me being all edgy and indie and whatnot! )