Tag: the past
member name: Mike Firesmith
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January 25, 2008 09:39 PM EST --
"Calvin and Hobbes" was a comic strip that ran for just a few years before the creator, Bill Watterson, decided that enough was enough, and he quit. I seem to remember he had a problem with . . .
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November 04, 2007 08:07 AM EST --
It may or may not be hard for you to believe that in High School I was voted “Most Likely to be Dead Before 21”. It was a joke, sort of a joke, but more people than not were certain it would . . .
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November 09, 2007 08:34 AM EST --
Ed Wilson was a kid who lived in my neighborhood and like all kids, Ed and I rode our bicycles at breakneck speed whenever possible. Staying inside and playing was not only out of the question but more . . .
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November 22, 2007 06:22 AM EST --
The Magic Chocolate Milk Cow still resides at my father’s house in Blakely Georgia. It’s a porcelain pitcher in the shape of a cow, and cow’s mouth is the spout. My paternal grandmother . . .
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November 10, 2007 07:36 AM EST --
I’m one year younger right now than my maternal grandmother was when I was born, in 1960. She was the youngest of my grandparents, and she was also the last to die, at age 90 in 2002. She was born . . .
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November 28, 2007 09:23 PM EST --
It’s late November so this kind of weather doesn’t surprise. Grey at dawn, with slight cold winds, and little hope for any true warmth for the entire day. The clouds seem leaden with rain . . .
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November 07, 2007 05:16 AM EST --
I was fourteen years old the first time I smoked pot. I tried it the first time someone offered it to me. In fact, I had asked everyone I knew if they knew anyone who had ever tried it, because . . .
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October 31, 2007 06:09 AM EDT --
I was nineteen years old, and a very young nineteen, before I realized that the world wasn’t like my tiny hometown of Blakely Georgia. It was to be several more years before I realized that the . . .
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November 05, 2007 05:23 AM EST --
Lane’s Spring in Miller County Georgia was once one of those places that was popular without being too popular. You had to know how to get there and paved roads hadn’t reached their tentacles . . .
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December 26, 2007 07:43 AM EST --
I'll stay away from the retail stores for another day or so, just in case. I heard the day after Christmas is always brutal but having no need to go into town right now, and no desire to shop ever . . .
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November 06, 2007 07:12 AM EST --
The Boys of Thunder Road And like many Knoxvillians, I love the lyrics that describe the “mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol”…
Roarin’ out of Harlan, revvin’ up his . . .
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September 29, 2007 07:21 AM EDT --
The Discovery Channel was showing a program one night about how the ancient Egyptians used barges to float their stone obelisks down the Nile on barges. These chunks of rocks would weigh hundreds . . .
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October 03, 2007 06:19 AM EDT --
My first roommate was a certified idiot. There were three of us living in a tiny apartment but that wasn't the problem. We were three young men on our own for the first time ever and it was . . .
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December 25, 2007 09:30 PM EST --
Going back to my old hometown is always a little weird. Blakely hasn't changed that much, cannot change that much, but each year brings a little change, and after a while, like a puppy that's . . .
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January 23, 2008 06:54 AM EST --
The Old Bridge was built in 1950, a full decade before I was born. In 1950, America entered into her first political war, but regrettable not her last. My father was just eighteen years old, and my mother . . .
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October 03, 2007 07:36 PM EDT --
Hi!
I took some time off yesterday and did some writing. When I returned to my inbox I discovered that I had been discovered. So, now that I have a new batch of people cruising through my little . . .
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