| KHftCEA Appendix A Random Memories pt 1 |
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KHftCEA Appendix A Random Memories pt 1
Story of my mom losing control of the car in snow with my sick dad riding- him saying "oh shit oh shit oh shit" as the car did a 180- when she asked if he saw or felt the car spinning he responded "Betty, I'm blind, not stupid." 99-8-23 --- Trip with Rebekah to Ohio: once she came back up from Oberlin, going to these gardens with her and Mike, lazing in the sun. Also sharing an overly small bed in a housemate smelling room, and finding we have the same taste in shower temperature. 99-8-24 --- floating and talking relationships with Sarah, away from the group at the dock in Lake George, summcr of 1998 99-9-1 --- Dad telling a story about a toilet in a basement protected only by a curtain, the time he heard a cousin sneeze, fart, and start to pee all at once. --- Dad being amused when I told him Arby's stood for "America's Roast Beef, Yes Sir" (something I heard in a tv commercial) 99-9-18 --- Atari demo with falling musical blocks: Crockford's Whimsy, on PD disk with Ballsong and Ballsong #2 (2020 Update: aka "Jane's Program") --- after a return from a visit to the grandfolks, letting them know we are home safely by hanging up after a set # of rings (to save long distance charges)- frugal people --- The disapointment of me and my dad at a middle school History Fair, when the judges hated my Apple II history quiz program. He and I went out to this place that served brownies with ice cream. I remember him seeming upset by the incident, not sure if it was at me. This is probably one of my very last memories of him healthy. --- Brownies (in plastic wrap) from high school chem teacher Von Banken's fundraising candy drawer --- Breaking a sapling tree as a very young boy. I was over at Mrs. Davis' (senior woman who went to the Salvation Army, friend of Mrs. Shoak) in Salamanca, who was upset at me. --- My dad not believing how pristine the alligator (like Izod) shoelaces he got me were even though I had been wearing them for a while. 99-10-29 --- industrial toaster at tufts --- ceramic lamp- ufo, w/ lights on the inside, r2 thing on crater base. 99-12-26 --- Making out in the back seat of the Mikeymobile 00-1-9 --- Over at The Fishes (Salamanca minister and his family) on a Christmas day: the youngest daughter gave her new doll to my dad to hold, later she went back to get it and he said "MY baby", shocking the poor little girl (became a family catchphrase) 00-1-29 --- High School Band, Teasing Ellen with the Henry Miller "squish squish" line she showed us- also Brave New World inspired "pneumatic" jokes. 00-5-13 --- High school and college band- those black big oily smelling music stands- trying to avoid the loose ones. 00-5-21 --- Family story: mom calling up the laundry chute yelling "throw down Kirk's coat", my dad in the tub responding "I don't talk to no walls". 00-5-22 --- Band picnic over at the band director John's (father of Adi) house-- we went to the nearby bell tower where John had responsibilities- had a chance to ring dem bells, arranged like a rather difficult to use piano. 00-5-31 --- Being asked to help console a fellow tuba player at Star Lake Camp whose dad had just died- but he was an arrogant jerk. 00-6-22 --- Q: What smells in a haunted house? A: Scooby's Doo! 00-6-27 --- Veronika's last day in Clevcland and her terribly overpacked suitcase. 00-9-29 (leaving for Germany tonight!) --- Rebekah in a flimsy tanktop leaning into her open refridgerator and quipping / quoting "coffee tea or me?" 00-10-8 --- "Spider doing pushups on a mirror." 00-10-14 --- Marnie visiting me in NYC: the ear hicky, cramps halfway up the statue of liberty, folding a sheet in quarters, then eights, sixteenths.... as a gag 00-11-11 --- The line "Nicholas Murray Butler" from the play "Cheaper by the Dozen" (I was the Father) at Monticello middle school 00-11-28 --- |