Insomnia Notebook
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Time traveler

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I like to travel into the past, check around, see how things were going in another year, another era. I do my time traveling with old movi...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

Older girls, younger men, older men, younger girls

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After my posting of Thursday, and the stories of charges against adults for sex with underage kids, I wasn't going to write about the su...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009

How, due to youth and folly, I nearly died, and yet with the aid of others I did not...

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On a Sunday morning in June, 1966, I read a startling news article. High school graduation had been the previous Friday night, and one of my...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Happy birthday, Richard Starkey

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It's Ringo's birthday today! So happy 69th birthday to you, mate. What I want to know is, I was 16 when you hit American shores in 1...

...and the dress's red glare...

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Sally and I watched the Capitol Fourth program on PBS Saturday night. We were both startled to see Aretha Franklin. She has never been slim ...
Monday, July 06, 2009

Monday meanderings

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Have you seen this story about the Arizona mom who had some boys, including her 12 and 14-year-old sons, out committing robberies so she cou...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Goodbye Granite High School

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Granite High School in South Salt Lake, Utah, is like a person who has attained great age. You respect them for living so long, but know the...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Turning off Sunlight

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Sky Saxon is gone. He died on the same day as Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, and obviously sank to the bottom of the news pile. He was...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

"I had met my soul mate..."

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People sure can make a mess when it comes to love. Case in point is the South Carolina governor, Mark Sanford, who has a wife in town and a ...

Again with the hubba-hubbas

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More pictures of my attempt to bring back the old term, "hubba-hubba," now disappeared, but once a cornerstone of a fresh guy'...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Hot air balloon disaster 1863!

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I picked up a copy of the June, 1957 Argosy magazine at an antique store. I was immediately taken by a great article on an historic event I...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

"...and you can be my cowgirl..."

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I read once that a person's earliest memories are usually from about three years of age. I'm sure there are people who remember even...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

What happens in Westworld, stays in Westworld

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I saw the movie Westworld on its first run, and thought I'd watch it again to see if it was anything like what I remembered. I'd fo...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

"I didn't recognize you."

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Listening to all the news about Michael Jackson's death reminded me that somewhere in my (shudder) basement was an old Michael Jackson d...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

What, me worry? Alfred E. Neuman and Mad

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In 1956 artist Norman Mingo, recently retired at age 60, answered an ad for an illustrator. It was for Mad Magazine, which wanted to go wit...
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