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Sunday, 02 December 2007

  • Imus continuuuues

    Imus returns tomorrow morning 6am and I'll be there live at Town Hall.  I'm sure I'll have thoughts afterward.

    Until then read my first article at DigitalJournal.

    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/246866/The_Birth_of_the_I_Nation

    Peace all,
    Hand Happy Imus All
    PTB


Sunday, 18 November 2007

Monday, 12 November 2007

Thursday, 09 August 2007

  • What To Do In Duluth MN at 3 in the Afternoon

    One of the blogs I read regularly had a cool post.

    http://www.xanga.com/peachjolyranchr/598646107/those-polish-sailors-need-me-damm\
    it.html?nextdate=last

    And it got me ruminating...

    I spent a week in Duluth one afternoon(just kidding, i loved Duluth.
    In Fact I applied and was accepted to UMD but chose to go in the Navy
    instead(and no Em I wasn't searching for Polish Sailors(Not that
    there's anything wrong with that))

    I was this kid see, 14 yrs old and my parents sent me to what's now
    Voyager Outward Bound School in Ely. 21 days of canoing the BWCA and
    rock climbing the north shore of 'the lake that they call
    Gitche-Gumee'. (Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the
    gales of November come early but I wouldn't know cause this was in
    June and nobody died.)

    It was the bestest, i saw a moose like 10 ft away looking right at me
    when i was on my solo. And one time we were canoeing across this big
    lake (did you know they have 10,000 of them up there? I'd swear we hit
    at least 7,473 of them) and out of the sun swoops down a Bald Eagle.
    He snags a fish and flies out. I was in the back of the canoe but my
    partner could have smacked him in the head with the paddle. I'm glad
    he didn't cause he'd probably have tipped us.

    So any ways after 21 days of living as much like a "savage" as one
    could in 1978 They drop me off at the grey hound station in Duluth
    around noon. My bus didn't leave till around 6. So for 6 hrs I
    wandered around Duluth. Had my first burger and fries with a coke in
    three weeks. Played "Only the Good Die Young" on the juke box 5 times
    straight before the owner asked me not to play it again. I told him
    that it was the only song on the Juke box that i really knew and i
    that i had been out on Outward Bound for 21 days. Then I told him all
    about Outward Bound and the moose and the eagle. and flap jacks. and
    bulgar. (I wasn't a particularly shy kid.) And about...

    He gave me a dollar, (9 songs for a dollar), But made me promise not
    to play "Only the Good Die Young". He also gave me a piece of
    Chocolate Cake, said i reminded him of his grandson.

    The one song he did make me play was "The Wreck of the Edmund
    Fitzgerald" Then he told me all about it. He had been a sailor on the
    lake when he was younger. It was one of the coolest afternoons of my
    life. In Duluth MN at 3 in the afternoon.

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