Spectacles, Testicles, Watch & Wallet
To this day I love it when people ask if I ever saw Deep Throat, and I get to say “No, but I read the book!”
A Birthday
It’s Donna’s birthday. She’s 74. How did that even happen?
Vintage Twitter Account, Cheap
I want to tell myself we’re going to crush Trump and the fascist Republicans who’ve hitched their wagons to him in November, but fuck me, I didn’t think he had a chance in 2016 either and look how that worked out.
Air-Minded: Name that Plane
If you follow aviation accounts on social media, you’ve probably noticed how quick fellow aviation buffs are to pounce on photos of unidentified aircraft. The only thing worse is when the original poster gets the aircraft type or model wrong … then it’s Katie bar the door!
A Dread, Whirring Noise
It has often occurred to me that perhaps the comparatively new science of aviation will bring the making of wars to an end by reason of the very terrible consequences which will fall upon those nations which, in the future, have the temerity to declare war upon each other.
Air-Minded: a Flying Tour of the USAF Museum
Okay, we’re all up to our eyeballs with social distancing and sheltering in place. So here’s something different.
Air-Minded: the C-130 Replacement that Wasn’t
I’m putting this Air-Minded post back at the top of the blog because it’s an interesting bit of aviation history; new, I hope, to some of my readers. I wrote it in 2012, at a time when Mitt Romney and John McCain were competing for the Republican presidential nomination and the US military services were floating […]
It Matters
What matters? Where you put the apostrophe.