Archive | November, 2007

Thanksgiving With My Second Family

So this year, instead of the usual trip to Mississippi, I went in a different direction.  Still west, but slightly north to St. Louis, Missouri.  H’s family has just about adopted me as one of the family.
After a bit of a delay Wednesday, we arrived in time to change clothes and head out to a [...]

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A Long Overdue Rant

Okay let me preface this by saying I KNOW my parents both made many, many sacrifices for me….and still do….but you gotta think about why we are in the position we are in……
My parents both came from relatively well off backgrounds.  They didn’t have to want for much growing up.  Both of their fathers were [...]

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Urge Overkill

Soooo, this weekend was interesting.
Friday seems like as good a place to start as any.  I was over at West Basic Sciences for class for the first time in ages.  The second year group had exams so it was busy over there.  I ran into a friend of mine who I usually see out and [...]

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The Thunderbolt

The Godfather is almost universally recognized as one of the top three movies of all time.  What many people don’t know is that it’s a VERY faithful translation of a novel by Mario Puzo.  I’ve read the novel about 3 times and as anyone who’s seen a movie and then read the original novel will [...]

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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself

Man has it been THAT long?  Homecoming was the last time I wrote?  REALLY?!?!?
A thousand apologies, if indeed I have any readers remaining.  Much has gone down in the life of the Killa in the interim and if I were to write about it all I’d be sitting here for hours.  That is not my [...]

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