Archive for December, 2008

King of the Wild Frontier

December 30, 2008
By Freakmaster
King of the Wild Frontier

For as long as I could remember back, during most of my pre-teen years, my dreams were an exercise in lurking terror followed by wild flight and occasional escape. It was an almost nightly rerun and there were many variations on the theme as to who or what might be doing the chasing, but...
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Shop Class Show Stopper

December 18, 2008
By Freakmaster
Shop Class Show Stopper

What a weird, weird thing that junior high ‘shop class’ thing was, and what was the point really? Of all of the nonsense that I created in shop class, none of it could have held a spec of worthiness compared to ‘home ec’ (home economics). You have to cook to eat or sew to...
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Big Brother On Loan

December 8, 2008
By Freakmaster
Big Brother On Loan

It didn’t take a detective to see that there were aspects of my childhood that struggled for lack of a paternal influence and with my biological father (father #1) hiding out in parts unknown, avoiding his children like the plague, and my adoptive dad (father #2) just plain ineffectual, my mother decided to pull...
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‘Pipeline’ Pioneers

December 2, 2008
By Freakmaster
‘Pipeline’ Pioneers

No, not that Pipeline, the mammoth coastal waves located in Hawaii, because that would involve a near-death experience with a surfboard and water rolling over head. Mmmm, not so much on that one. The Pipeline I’m referring to was born in the very un-surfer-like Detroit area and was the name that teenagers gave to...
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