Thursday, August 25, 2005

August 25, 2005 @ 3:24 PM I Have Famous Friends. Pat Boone called me on the telephone! He wanted me to take action to make sure the Senate voted to abolish the wicked "Death Tax." I tried to interrupt, but he ground on as if he couldn’t hear me. "Pat, baby, great concentrations of inherited wealth are not a good thing." He thanked me for listening. The Republicans are at it again. 3:33:21 PM    comment []

August 25, 2005 @ 9:15 am Tucson Weekly 2…Local Dailies 0 Steve Leal probably has no re-election worries this November when Tucson elects City Council members. Jim Nintzel explains why in a profile of Leal’s opponent, GOP City Council candidate Vernon Walker. Have I just missed the Stars coverage? Read Nintzel’s story here. For the most part the press fearlessly recognizes no ‘sacred cows’…errr, except for possibly the press itself. In this week’s Media Watch Walt Nett explains what the business of newspapering is about and what possible effect that might have on newspaper readers in the Old Pueblo. Read all about it here. 9:36:38 AM    comment []

August 25, 2005 @ 8:20 am Riding With The Fat Old Men I have been riding with the fat old men. Their bellies lunge aggressively over their belt bands like boulders hanging balanced over a cliff's edge. They wear blue jeans suspended from bright red galluses as broad as four fingers of a thin man's hands. For real comfort 'overhauls' are the informal uniform of the day. The fat old men are sixty-something to seventy-something. They have knuckles scarred by slipping wrenches, and small patches of white skin where burns have healed from rubbing against red hot exhaust headers. They were too anxious to get the work done to let their motorcycles cool; too eager to get back on the road. The fat old men do not walk to breakfast with their riding companions unless the cafe is across the street. The fat old men are genial companions around a campfire, or at a breakfast table, but they leave the congeniality of group walks to their younger, merely plump, riding buddies and their buddies' comfortable wives.                                                      ……continued at Motorcycles : link 8:39:58 AM    comment []

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