Musings: An old rant revisited

Posted by Mike on October 8, 2006

It’s been three and a half decades and the wound is still raw. Let’s go back to 1970. My wife and I were sitting in a Phoenix movie theater. It was packed. Ali McGraw’s character in “Love Story” was near death. People were sobbing. Not me. I was steaming. Here’s why.

(This has also been posted Camp Jinx, our family web site)

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NBC Stories: Sdrawkcab

Posted by Mike on September 27, 2006

This Today show story aired on January 1, 2002, a palindrome year where numbers read the same backwards. That inspired a search for backward thinking people.

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NBC Stories: Less Than Meets The Eye

Posted by Mike on September 20, 2006

This is the architectural standard setter for “thinking out of the box.”

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NBC Stories: A Gripping Story

Posted by Mike on September 13, 2006

Tired of arrogant, mouthy, chemically altered athletes muscling their way into the headlines? If so, you will really like John Brookfield. Who?

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NBC Stories: My Finest Hour

Posted by Mike on September 6, 2006

To be immortalized in plastic, isn’t that your dream? Long after I have left this earth my legacy will live on I the form a green and yellow action figure that never saw much action.

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