Dad’s ’79 Corvette

I found this photograph last weekend going through some things.  This is hardly the most valuable car Dad let get away, but this is the one he says he regrets selling the most.  This is a 1979 Corvette L-82, black with white interior.  It had most of what you could put on one except front … Read more

Immortalizing my homemade VHS collection

I briefly mentioned last week that I was finally digitizing my VHS collection, with the aid of this little thingamajig and associated unpolished-but-effective software. Said collection consists of two dozen or so painstakingly recorded cassettes.  I made them between 1987 and 1992, mostly in my bedroom at my dad’s house, holding the remote and doing … Read more

The other one

Sometime in college, or maybe shortly thereafter, Charles and I were at a party and this girl introduced herself as “the other one.”  I said “what does that mean, ‘the other one’?”  She replied “well, you know like in Wilson Phillips, there’s the pretty one, the fat one, and the other one.  I’m the other … Read more

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