I stood this close to Charo on the E terminal tram in Miami Airport last week. She stamped her little foot in response to something somebody in her posse said. Murray Slaughter (Captain and Chief Writer of the SS 6 O’Clock News) was nowhere to be seen.
She’s been around forever. Wikipedia claims she’s 57, but I’m guessing she’s closer to 130.
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?
Places I’ve been:
Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela will turn red sometime soon. And I kind of assume I’ll make it to India and China and Australia somewhen, I don’t know why. Antarctica, though, even though it doesn’t show up on this map (a gross oversight on the part of the World66 people), will be a tough nut to crack.
C’s driving it home from ‘bama as I type. I dropped her off, signed a slip of paper, and left. I can’t stand that scene; every time I speak to a car salesman, another piece of me dies.
I did look inside it and watched it get turned on. It’s a Prius. It will be the first car I’ve ever owned that, when sitting in the driver’s seat, it’s not immediately obvious how to make it go.
A follow up to this post; it happened again, and this time I have an actual screen capture of the weirdness.
Weird, huh? It’s probably poltergeists.
Headline in the Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) April 27, 2006. Headlines considered but rejected include
Rice Press to visit Premier Rumsfeld, Iraq
Rumsfeld to press rice, visit Iraq premier
and
“Visit Iraq rice-press:” Rumsfeld to premier
I could stare at this for seconds on end. I guess I just like seeing Patrick Stewart blowing away kids. That’s my guess.
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I have to have this in place for technical reasons that are too mundane to go into here. It’ll be gone shortly.
Update: I need a plug-in that requires a password to access, that actually works if one inputs the password, and that doesn’t call attention to itself by putting a gigantic “Protected” header on the post. I’ve had 2 recent posts that I posted in order to set “last position” for The Map. I didn’t want to delete them after that function was no longer required because that deletes the comments, too. But there’s no simple way in WP to do that. The “Password-Protect Post” function actually eliminates access to comments even if the correct password is applied, which is blockheaded and in need of repair.
Bad Behavior has blocked 1257 access attempts in the last 7 days.
