We don’t do memes very often here at SSTOL, but every once in a blue moon, someone on my blogroll will post one that looks kind of fun. The man known only as the Mysterious Cloaked Figure served up this intriguing challenge a while back: Answer a series of 20 questions about yourself, using titles [...]
Archive for the ‘Reminiscing’ category
Dominance and Submission
March 2, 2010Guam to run all night, Guahan to run all day
February 18, 2010This just in from the South Pacific… To mark the beginning of his final year in office, Felix Camacho, the governor of Guam, issued an executive order changing the name of Micronesia’s largest island to Guahan — the original name of the island in the language of its indigenous people, the Chamorros. Guam — begging [...]
Postscript… with a bullet
January 20, 2010It’s indicative how stunned I was by the death of novelist Robert B. Parker that I neglected to mention in my memorial post the most personal element of my Parker experience… I actually met the man once. This would have been, I believe, in the fall of 1982. Parker was on a tour promoting Ceremony, [...]
The final bullet
January 19, 2010Books live forever. Authors, sadly, do not. Robert B. Parker has been my favorite novelist since 1977, when I checked out Mortal Stakes, the third novel in his now-legendary series of books featuring the one-named private detective Spenser, from the Novato High School library and immediately fell in love. (In a purely platonic and literary [...]
Silver threads
January 19, 2010On this date 25 years ago — a chilly, overcast January day here in Wine Country — KJ and I were wed. What’s the secret of being married for 25 years? No secret, really. It’s the same as with anything. If you keep doing something without quitting, eventually you’ll have done it for a quarter-century. [...]
Citizen of eWorld
November 30, 2009A random post to an online forum I frequent jolted into memory a fact that I hadn’t considered before today… I’ve been online for 15 years. That’s almost as long as the World Wide Web itself has been around. I bought my first computer way back in 1988, with a chunk of my original Jeopardy! [...]
Quizmasters!
November 10, 2009Here’s proof that life sometimes winds around in bizarre directions that one never expected. The game show fanatics in the room will recall that back in 2005, Jeopardy! mounted its Ultimate Tournament of Champions — or, as I like to refer to it, the Quest for Ken Jennings. 145 of us former Jeopardy! stalwarts were [...]
Soup’s gone
October 22, 2009So I come home tonight after a long day at the hospital with KJ, and the first thing I read on the news is that Soupy Sales died. Go ahead, world… tear away another piece of my childhood. Although I’m too young to have been around for his infamous kids’ shows from the 1950s and [...]
Comic Art Friday: Long tails, and ears for hats
September 11, 2009When last we convened for Comic Art Friday, we took our first look at a spectacular new addition to my Common Elements gallery — this super-sized six-character commission by Florida artist Gene Gonzales entitled “Catfight of the Bands.” Today, let’s take a closer examination of the first of those two battling trios. (Never fear — [...]
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