In the ‘90s I was in the Oshkosh WI airport for the big air show. The concourse was crowded, and I bumped into someone. Turning, I found myself nose-to-nose with Buzz Aldrin. I was too stunned to speak, and the old moon walker just smiled, turned and walked away. I’ll always regret not speaking to him and shaking his…
The mark preceding the text is telling. “S/NF” means “Secret/No Foreign”. Not only was it classified secret, it could not be disclosed to any non-citizen, even one who holds the appropriate clearance. This is of course sublimely ironic, as the whole episode centers on the president’s phone call to a foreign head of…
Doesn’t look a bit like Kim.
I can’t speak to the coffee, but Biscuits N’ Porn in Nags Head NC on the Outer Banks makes the best gas station breakfast sandwiches on the planet. The line is out the door every morning.
Wiki says:
“...many people spend their inheritances faster than they expect by splurging on short-term pleasures and failing to plan for the tax burden.”
When I graduated from college in 1971 (yes, I’m really that old) my mailbox filled with credit cards; every grad’s did. These were real, approved, fully active cards with noticeable credit limits; you could go right out and buy stuff immediately. I guess times have changed.
“...NASA spent millions developing a pen that could write in space, and the Russians used a pencil.”
“...NASA spent millions developing a pen that could write in space, and the Russians used a pencil.”
Fun fact: the background illustration in that video is a riff on a famous Margaret Bourke-White photo from 1937. It shows african americans lined up in front of a billboard proclaiming that America has the world’s highest standard of living.
In the mid-’70s I was once at my girlfriend’s apartment until about 2 in the morning. Driving home to my place about 5 miles away, my car started to sputter and then died, out of gas. I coasted down a hill, up another, and halfway down the next a gas station loomed out of the darkness, the only station open all night…
“... static fantasy world...”
Never mind coats and things... what we need is Ross’ Holiday Armadillo costume.
Re. music to get fired to
Closer to home, you can spend the night in the A Christmas Story house. Used in the movie only for exterior shots, the house in Cleveland OH has been remodeled to resemble the interior sets from the movie. For a mere $250 you can spend the night where Ralphie dreamed of a Red Ryder BB gun. However, for Christmas Eve…
Hair dryers loom large in our legend. In an interview Natalie Portman said that Padmé felt poorly armed in the big arena battle in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.
The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado had a 390 cu. in. V8 that got 9 miles to the gallon, and back then we didn’t care a fig; I know... I was there.
This puts me in mind of edge-notched information cards. You used a special hand punch to notch them, representing different information categories. You then used a metal rod to sort and select. It’s what we used before we had computers.
My wife and I had Moviepass back in the glory days, and it was a lot of fun. Now we have Regal Unlimited, and it works great; we can see all the movies we want, as often as we want. It makes a lot more sense too. Moviepass had to shell out cash for every movie we watched, but Regal is screening the movies anyway; it…
