Monthly Archives: January 2011
Planes, Naan and 58 Chevys
Topanga Airport has it’s field and all the gates to be all open air. The climate is nice enough here; this is Southern California, after all. Lisa and I are game for adventure, so we decide to try the new airport out and see how it runs. We walk up to the ticketing agent for Southwest and ask to purchase tickets to Las Vegas… Continue reading
Journalism On The Half-Shell
The men were looking for me. My companion pointed to the dam and said the other side of that dam is a 300 foot fall; Dave could not have gone that way. The intruders questioned him as to the necessity of a dam, especially at that height. Did the valley below ever really fill all the way up to this level and start flooding our river? As I looked down that seemed like an improbable if not impossible circumstance indeed. Continue reading
Arm A Gettin’ It…
When we arrived, there were some other people there. We all found places to settle in, there seemed to be enough houses for everyone. We seemed safe, and least for the time being. We had plenty of food. Our community grew together. We were in the desert, but it was very cold. Continue reading
Dream Collage
I looked at the woman behind me, and she shrugged. The woman in front of me was incensed. She started complaining, and quite loudly. Turns out she was not so upset about stealing the donation money (though she was), but about the delay in checking us out… Continue reading
College Daze
The teacher came over to ask me a question; I just pretended to be sleeping, and she went on and asked the girls next to me. They did not know the answer, either. Continue reading
Planes, Trains and Christmas Carols…
There was Hanks, in full make-up, heading to the sound stages. He had white added to the sides of his hair, and was in full costume. He was followed by Christopher Lloyd, who was playing Scrooge. Continue reading
Mixed Up, Muddled Up
He grew a set of ears out of his shoulders. Long, narrow ears, like a donkeys. Then his whole back erupted into a set of wings. And then those dissolved back into his back, and another object grew out of his back. At times, he would even spell words in block letters as tall or taller than his head… Continue reading
