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August 2008
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Play Rough, Fight Dirty—Chapter 2
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Wed Aug 20, 2008
10:20 pm
by McGehee
Talk back
[Fiction]
[Play Rough, Fight Dirty]
In Progress
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I guess now it’s time to start making things happen.
Comments are open.
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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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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Saturday morning: a little more new content Chapter 1 completed. I don’t consider this “blogging,” so no complaints about violating my hiatus.
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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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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Robert Redford Is Trying to Make Me Vote for McCain
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Mon Jul 14, 2008
12:51 pm
by McGehee
5 comments
[Elections]
[Wackadoodle]
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He claims he supports Barack Obama, but with comments like this, I suspect a game is afoot.
Asked by Michael Dwyer, film correspondent of The Irish Times, if he was looking forward to “regime change” in the US, Redford said: “Yes. Where my country is at the moment, I’m not confident of anything. I’m hopeful.
“I think Obama is not tall on experience . . . but I believe he’s a really good person. He’s smart. And he does represent what the country needs most now, which is change.
“I hope he’ll win. I think he will. If he doesn’t, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye. I think we need new voices, new blood. We need to get a whole group out, get a new group in.” »
Actor pins hopes on victory for Obama
Promises, promises. Alec Baldwin promised to leave the country for good if George W. Bush won re-election, but he’s still here. So I’m not counting on this one either.
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Forbid It, Almighty God!
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Mon Jul 14, 2008
2:47 am
by McGehee
3 comments
[Humor?]
[Our Times]
[Media Ochre]
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Horrible dream the other night. In the spirit of “The Brady Bunch,” “Bewitched” and a whole mess of other recent movies, Hollywood had decided to do a movie remake of “Gilligan’s Island.”
They had cast Tobey Maguire as Gilligan, and Bruce Campbell—fresh off another season as Sam Axe on “Burn Notice”—as the Skipper. The Howells were James Spader and Reese Witherspoon. They were negotiating with Miley Cyrus to play Ginger.
That’s when I woke up screaming, so I don’t know who was going to play the Professor and Mary Ann.
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