same.

St. Louis, of course.

NASCAR, the hum of the engines puts me right out. Best part, you wake up 2 hours later having missed nothing of significance.

“if you have a concussion, you do not need to really miss much time, you’re weak if you can’t play through a concussion.”

And where they can also hold Combat Zone Wrestling shows, too!

Just as long as he is not running around collecting flags, 200 feathers, or spending hours needlessly collecting treasure, I think I will be okay watching the movie.

I’m totally convinced that if Redmayne wins the Oscar for “The Danish Girl” DiCaprio will murder him.

Thanks for your kind comment. What I wrote was a stream of consciousness sparked by your posted story. I was trained as a biochemist/cell biologist, so my only published writing is in journals and related books. I would enjoy other kinds of writing, I think, but have no idea where to start for that.

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This is the correct order.