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August 2008
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Play Rough, Fight Dirty—Chapter 3
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Mon Aug 25, 2008
9:10 pm
by McGehee
5 comments
[Fiction]
[Play Rough, Fight Dirty]
In Progress
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It was a hot and, for Clearwater, sticky Saturday afternoon, and I’d noticed the day before while riding home from work that the chain on my bike was loose. So I was just inside the standing-open garage door working on it when Eric came walking up the driveway with his little bike, the one he’d learned to ride with training wheels before he was in kindergarten.
“Wiley, could you raise the seat some more for me?”
I looked up from the rear sprocket of my bike and remembered how I’d already raised the seat for him once around Easter time when we’d gotten our bikes out for the first time since last fall. To illustrate his request he stepped over the back wheel of his bike and stood straddling the seat before having to bend his knees to sit down on it.
I looked at the seat post and grimaced. I’d accidentally pulled the post right out of the frame before, and Dad and I had had a heck of a time getting it back in and tightened in place. “Eric, I don’t think that seat’s going to come up any higher.” Then I looked at my bike, with the seat post sticking only a couple of inches above the frame.
“If you’ll help me with my chain,” I offered, “I might have an idea how we can fix your bike.”
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Play Rough, Fight Dirty—Chapter 2
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Mon Aug 25, 2008
10:10 am
by McGehee
2 comments
[Fiction]
[Play Rough, Fight Dirty]
Completed
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When I rode my bike up to the old former Clearwater Drug and Discount Market, there was a crew working on putting up a new sign at the corner of the parking lot, and several trucks parked in the lot itself. The front door was propped open and I could see some men working around a couple of checkstands while others were taking stuff out of boxes and putting them on store shelves. A hand-lettered sign in the window said “Accepting Applications Inside.”
I rode on by and around the back of the bowling alley next door, where I chained my bike up to a telephone pole before walking back to the drug store. I didn’t know anybody that I’d seen at the store, and maybe having a cop for a dad made me more suspicious than I needed to be.
Inside, I found Uncle Phil behind a counter at one side of the store, busy talking with somebody about something having to do with “point of sale” and “inventory control.” I stood close enough for him to notice me once he finished explaining whatever it was he was explaining, and waited.
“If you don’t hate doing it there’s something wrong with you,” he told the other man with a smile, “but if you don’t do it every time you turn around, you’ll be out of business before you know what’s happening. Hi there, Wiley. You want to apply for a job, don’t you?”
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It’s Dukakis-Bentsen!
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Sat Aug 23, 2008
8:10 am
by McGehee
5 comments
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Obama-Biden '08]
[Here's Your Sign]
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We interrupt this blogging hiatus to bring you my reaction to breaking news:
Michael Dukakis named Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.
Dukakis announced the pick on his Web site with a photo of the two men and an appeal for donations. A text message went out shortly afterward that said, “Mike has chosen Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be our VP nominee.” »
Dukakis selects Bentsen as running mate
This suggests that John McCain will have to pick Spongebob Squarepants to be his running mate.
Biden: “I knew Dan Quayle. I worked with Dan Quayle. Dan Quayle was a friend of mine. And Spongebob, you are no Dan Quayle.”
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Play Rough, Fight Dirty—Chapter 1
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Sat Aug 16, 2008
11:00 am
by McGehee
3 comments
[Fiction]
[Play Rough, Fight Dirty]
Completed
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The car drove slowly up the street, and Bob’s dad suddenly became silent and watchful. So did Bob—yet as the car came closer both turned their eyes away from the street and glanced at each other. Bob’s dad resumed telling his story about a friend of his and trying to get a used motorcycle running, but I could tell he was on full alert until the car passed by, reached the end of the street, and turned left. Toward Main Street.
Caleb Scruggins paused a moment as he looked at the now-vacant intersection, then went back to his story, telling his son and his son’s two friends—all of us sitting on the Scruggins’ front steps—about bad gas clogging an engine and how you shouldn’t leave old gas to sit for a long time.
Billy Ironwood waited for Caleb to finish the story, then looked directly at him and asked, “Who was that?”
“I don’t know,” replied the unshaven man. “This ain’t no pass-through street, and that wasn’t a Darrow County plate on that car.”
“Looked like cops,” said Bob, with a glance at me.
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July 2008
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I Think That’s Enough for Now
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Thu Jul 31, 2008
10:44 pm
by McGehee
8 comments
[Asides]
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I’ve got such a huge case of blog fatigue, I think I’m going to challenge myself to not blog at all during the month of August.
See you in September. (Or will I?)
Update: some of the best of boreblogger nirvana.
‘Nother update: I think I’m going to extend my hiatus until after the GOP convention. Partly because it makes sense to not blog both conventions, and partly as a penalty for the two times I did flout my own moratorium, however justified.
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Hope. Change. Unity.
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Wed Jul 23, 2008
11:59 pm
by McGehee
1 comment
[Elections]
[Wackadoodle]
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Barack Obama just keeps on healing division.
Jim Martin, one of the Democratic candidates vying to face U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, said Wednesday he voted for John Edwards after his runoff opponent accused him of voting “against” Barack Obama.» Democratic candidates spar on presidential picks
There were so many Democrats running in the Senate primary on July 15 that no one candidate got a majority, so Martin and Jones are feuding fighting it out in a runoff August 5 to see who gets to lose big to Chambliss in November.
It sure is interesting that Barack Obama has so thoroughly united the Democratic Party that its members apparently didn’t have the right to vote for anyone but him during the primaries.
Is there anything he can’t do?
If you like that, you’ll love this:
Martin - who’s been bashing his opponent Vernon Jones for twice casting ballots for Republican George Bush...
Apparently Jones regards voting for Edwards in the primary as worse than voting—as a Democrat and elected officeholder—for George W. Bush.
To be fair, most elected Georgia Democrats voted for Bush in 2004, and declared publicly their intention to do so.
If Jones’ best response to Martin’s attacks is to accuse the latter of voting “against” Obama during a process where that’s what Democrats do, he may be in trouble.
But at least his humiliation will come in August instead of November.
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