Some short stories and suburban legends here. By day, I write success stories at ResumeGuru.com
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Rank on Tron machine at Comic-Con: 1 Drew a small crowd at the recreation of Flynn’s Arcade from the movie. In 1982 I was world champion at Tron for about 2 weeks…name printed in Electronic Games magazine, etc. My score still ranks #15…
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Halloween Homecoming
Nothing made me feel so awesome as people spotting me in the ‘Ambush’ costume, calling out ‘Rob! I heard you were coming back!’ and running up to hug me. I didn’t know how much I missed this community–until I was…
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Vintage Halloween Costumes, 1865-1955
http://mashable.com/2014/10/24/vintage-halloween-costumes/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
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The Only Mark Twain Film
1909 footage digitally restored in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaSOw1WhjI
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Ray Bradbury’s Groupie from the Future
I met a man from the future at one of Ray Bradbury’s talks. Around ten years ago Ray would give classes on writing in San Diego once or twice a year. These turned out to be Ray reminiscing about being…
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Fourth of July: Ground Bloom Flowers
This was the core of our annual firework arsenal. We’d often have a brick of these things, leading to a steady course of them over the evening, punctuated by fountain cones or other more exotic (expensive) devices. As the night…
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Fourth of July: Suburban Antiaircraft
Some years would see a block party with neighbors combining firework arsenals. The Dagnalls never kicked in the large boxed assortments. In part because I was particular about the fireworks I liked and the ones I didn’t at the local Red…
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Free and freestanding street library
Great design for “headspace”: inside are books, sheltered from the elements, for you to browse and borrow. http://www.stereotank.com/Little-Free-Library http://boingboing.net/2013/05/30/freestanding-street-library.html