Monthly Archives: May 2009

Poor Peoria

May 1, 2009 – 10:48 am

My knowledge of the Midwest is minimal. My last cross-country trip was in 1996. The voyage in a 1954 Studebaker avoided cities of the heartland. I’ve flown over the plains several times on my way to LA. Eight miles high is too distant to discern the changes wrought to these urban centers, however this week […]

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Be Kind to the Platypus

May 1, 2009 – 9:45 am

The Ramada Hotel bar at JFK collects interesting people. We had missed our flight to Chicago after the JetBlue steward decided my Scottish friend was hovering on the line of intoxication. Two table of Irish punks were catching a morning flight to Dallas for a show. A British FO flunky was trying to seduce my […]

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