Posts Tagged ‘lacking cell phone’

Neighborhood Bonding Moments

Around nine o’clock we had one of those momentary glimpses of what amounts to neighborhood chaos: picture a white pickup truck, front driver-side wheel folded limply under the vehicle, swerving and accelerating down the street in front of our house. Now picture him doing multiple u-turns, slamming into the curb and at least one [...]

the hitchhiker’s guide to the perseids

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at some staggeringly complex and varying distance every one-hundred and twenty years or so, is a sizable conglomeration of dust, ice, and (quite possibly) highly intelligent aliens who [...]