Famous Watches I Have Known: a Photoblog
When I bought my first Seiko in 1978, I had no idea that a fellow USAF pilot, Colonel William Pogue, had worn one like it in space just a few years earlier.
"When I do not want to say things in real life I often say them here." — Mimi Smartypants
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When I bought my first Seiko in 1978, I had no idea that a fellow USAF pilot, Colonel William Pogue, had worn one like it in space just a few years earlier.
If you’ve a sharp eye you’ll notice my watch is on the wrong wrist.
The 57 Bus is young adult non-fiction. The narrative, in true crime tradition, opens with a brutal act, the intentional burning of one teenager by another on a cross-town bus in Oakland, California.
There’s a long hot summer ahead. Stay fresh, cheese bags.
Yesterday was Donna’s birthday, and I am once again the junior partner in our relationship.
Six short book reviews
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I thought I’d given up on Jack Reacher novels. Lee Child quit writing them four installments back, passing the torch to his younger brother Andrew. Andrew is not Lee, and some of the oomph went out of the stories, which began to feel like an artificial intelligence was cranking them out. But I couldn’t resist […]