I finished my first year at UC Berkeley without screwing up too badly. Some good experiences and several not so good – like the time i snuck a HUGE firecracker – an “Atom Bomb” the size of a stick of dynamite purchased in Tijuana – under the bed of Rich Weinstock on the 8th floor … Read more
It was the summer of 1962. Jay Kenny, Joe Cotham, Duncan Penman, and i had just graduated from high school. We left El Cajon in my 1951 Ford convertible to make some money picking fruit in Central California. Duncan had researched about agricultural labor and knew that we needed to sign up for work at … Read more
We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.-Jack Gardner Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.-Tom Robbins If you are expecting a novel, brace yourself as this short work is definitely not that. It does not fit easily in any genre, so far as i know. … Read more
David Almandsmith CHAPTER 1 Unusual object detected approaching Planet Castor. Spectrum indicates extreme temperature. John stopped loosening bolts on the motor he was repairing in the maintenance shed on the outskirts of New Moscow. “Huh. Munchie, you can see something that far off? Must be pretty freaking big.” Negative. Too small to resolve. Detected by … Read more