The Appleseed Project is coming to Vale, Oregon at the end of the month (the 21st and 22nd to be exact). THAT is a cool thing, because Vale is just up the road from Boise. Hmmm… what am I doing that weekend? I’ll bet they could teach me to shoot better.
Archive for June 5th, 2008
A blog I look at sometimes runs photos with the title “Why We Win”. My only thought when I saw this was “why we’ll lose”…
Words fail me. This crap makes me so angry, on so many levels, I can’t even see straight. What kind of people ARE you?
Driving through the neighborhood this afternoon, I noticed three kids playing in their front yard. Oh yeah, school’s out. But as I got closer, I realized they were all three holding whips, and taking turns trying to crack them over their heads or out in front of them. I’m thinking “what the…”, and then I notice the cheap imitation brown fedora the oldest one was wearing. It was even the wrong color, and my first thought, as a grouchy old man, was that school should be a 12 month deal. My second thought was that someday in their twenties, they’d look back on this day and think “we were such dorks”.
And then my third thought was back to when I was that age, and my brothers and I all had coonskin caps and toy “kentucky long rifles”. Fess Parker as Davy Crockett was our hero. He was also our hero as Daniel Boone, again wearing that coonskin cap. And Leslie Nielson was another one, as the legendary Swamp Fox, although his hat was a tricorner with a tail on it, if I remember correctly. Good role models. Frontiersmen. Patriots. I wonder if those kids when they’re in their fifties will miss their boyhood heroes as much as I miss mine?
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