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Fools Believe in Angels
Thursday, 9.8.11 Some guy at the power substation in Yuma, AZ flipped the wrong switch and most of the lower third of the Great State of California and four million people of its people are powerless. Maybe he should have been thinking about the grid instead of that woman in HR with the nice ass….
Please Hold My Sequined Heart
The huge thunderheads of these September days rise over the mountains far to the east, piling up on each other, filling the dry sky, sucking every drop from my skin. This awful heat holds me down, hides me inside these walls, wishing for the smallest breeze to stir the shriveled elm leaves outside my office…
Out of the Clear Blue Sky
The sounds of slack boat sails slapping masts and chains clanking carried on the gusty breeze from the harbor to the waiters’ bench at the Body Beautiful Car Wash two short blocks away. A twenty-degree respite from the convection-oven heat of August had drawn me (and, by the length of the line at…
A Bad Muthah Truckah
You know you’ve been on the road too long and too often when your daughter sends you an email with the subject “For you long-haul truckers” and this link — http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/travel/14practraffic.html?hpw – and you reply to inform her that you already use the best of the apps described in the article. This quick post perhaps…
Moving On
Roads, belts of asphalt or concrete, arrow straight or curly as a grapevine, they slip and wriggle through mountains, vectoring the view, and slash true as a blade on the flats, the shortest distance between two points, city to country to town and back. We drove from San Diego to Bethesda in 1954 with my…