December 2009
3 posts
Prom Nerd Deflowering Inertia, and Lisa's Tree
Lisa drove down from Detroit to Gaithersburg for Christmas 2004, bringing with her a Christmas tree. I was living in a townhouse with Chris Schwarz, Chris’s fiancee Mandy, Joe McHugh, and Hagan Blount. I had the ground floor room, and the middle floor was shared space.
Lisa turned up with this long cardboard box with a plastic handle, and in it was the first fake Christmas tree I ever...
More Than Meets
Back when we lived on Deerfield Dr, on the other side of the tracks at the bottom of the hill, we’d go to the Family Video over by church pretty rarely. Jim Straka’s family would rent several videos and then when they took them back they would rent a bunch more. Once, the Straka’s VCR broke and they rented a whole nother VCR, which was in a thick textured red plastic shell with...
This corner
When I try to remember high school, I usually get the mental image of this street corner:
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See there, the thing called Yi Chung Kwan? I think it was called “Habib’s” in my day. It was a convenience store. Just east of it is my high school, Central. And to the northwest, there’s the girl’s school, Oakland Catholic. One year, I was usually found...