There’s a sign at around mile marker 1 or 2 going West on I-10 in Mississippi just prior to Louisiana that says “Welcome Center Closed for Reconstruction.”
I mean, shit! That’s over 140 years! I wonder what the hold-up is!
(Unfortunately it doesn’t say that it’s a Mississippi welcome center, else it would make a great picture. It still makes me laugh when I pass it, though.)
My letter-writing campaign to the various cartooning syndicates and independents urging more cartoons about visits to breweries has started to pay off:
I’ve seen a lot of weird or wonderful things in my life. So have you. The difference is that I’m about to list some of the things I’ve seen:
1. A downpour that affected the street I lived on. The rain fell only in the street, and moved down the street before tapering off to nothing before it got to the end of the street.
2. A woman sitting in the bed of a pickup truck as it drove down the highway in Arlington on an early morning. Long, flowing hair; nude.
3. A satellite breaking up. I could see little pieces of fiery somethings slowly breaking off and fizzling as it yawed across the sky. It lasted long enough to say “Hey! Look at that!” to another guy, and he was able to look at it well before it disappeared.
4. A rainbow clear around the sun.
5. Bears.
6. A whale just south of Pass Christian.
7. Glacier Point burning down.
8. A fog so thick that I could hold my 4 year old hand at a 4 year old’s arm’s length in front of my face and couldn’t see it.
9. A train that I was waiting patiently to finish passing by stop so suddenly that I knew somebody at the next intersection had died.
10. The El Al 747 crash in Amsterdam in 1992 as I flew above it.
I wonder what’s next?
The World Question Center 2008
A collection of essays from people who know things about things they thought they knew but later figured out they didn’t. For instance, I like Martin Seligman’s essay about the probability of ET because he basically independently came to the same conclusion I came to, but with the added distraction of being Carl Sagan’s friend.
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