Japanese Game Show
Mike, This 400-meter runner, Pretorius, has two amputated legs, with attachments that allow him to bound down the track like a goosed kangaroo (see movie). The Olympic committee says the prostheses give him an unfair advantage, so they won’t let him compete in the next Olympics. Appatrently his artificial feet do give him an advantage, […]
Before meeting Dan, Mark and Adam for breakfast this morning I looked at shirts at K-Mart and then drove around Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord. Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaneil Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau are buried there along with quite a few others. Like Mt Auburn Cemetery, with its host of famous […]
Mike, This is the first I’ve read of actual lung damage and threat to private parts for members of the 300-deg club. <quote> You can’t feel the difference between -25F and -44F. I learned this on my last trip, but this trip I’ve internalized the lesson that cold is cold. You can’t tell the difference […]
Michael, This is a blog-worthy story and album of a once-in-a-lifetime experience of going up 750 feet to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge. My cousin Dan Larsen did this despite acrophobia and a brand new unused camera. Enjoy! –rakkity Hello Swing members, Dan Larsen from Alameda, CA, here. This has been a while […]
It’s Tuesday.