![]() Friday, February 27, 2004
I heard this happy jingle playing on television this morning, as Emma watched Baby Looney Toons on Cartoon Network. A few lines from the commercial for a kids macaroni product jackhammered into my subconscious and I found myself picturing Christ from Mel Gibson's overhyped film bebopping bloodily on my television screen. That turned into a far more amusing image as I saw the poorly rendered Cheese Dinosaur waterskiiing in a sea of cheese (cheeseskiing?) and I pictured the battered, dying Christ just having a blast doing the same. Disturbing, no?
![]() Tuesday, February 24, 2004
I recall very little of the Pier from my earliest days, save my mother and sister, Twyla, telling me that I really wouldn't fall through the cracks and drown. Not exactly a comforting memory, one might think, but it is one of the few places that I really hold dear. We moved around for most of my childhood, as Navy families do, and I remained close to the coast until I was about thirteen years old, and Dad took a detached duty position with the NROTC unit at the University of North Carolina. I desperately missed the ocean, especially after having just spent the entire summer with my Grandpa Hinshaw, clamming, fishing, getting up too early, going to bed too late and doing all the things that boys do. Grandpa and I didn't spend any summers together after that year, and that made me miss the place even more. To this day, when I'm ailing, hurting, ill or just down, I go there and it never fails to make me better. In fact, I think I'll go there today...
![]() Monday, February 16, 2004
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