scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
“Tragedy is no stranger to the family of Preston Gleason, 21, of Anna.
Preston died Tuesday in an accident in McKinney at the intersection of Alma Drive and State Highway 121. McKinney Police Department officials said a tractor-trailer ran a red light and collided with Preston’s motorcycle.”
(from The Dallas Morning News - Aug 16, 2007)
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I’m gonna sic my attack-worm on somebody.
I’m always searching for podcasts at work to help relieve the monotony of long hours sitting at a computer. I’ve been listening to something called “Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery” (http://www.wormwoodshow.com/) for a few weeks and I have to say I just don’t get it. The cliched premise started out […]
One of the nice things about working on transcriptions at these older Collin County cemeteries as the peace and quiet. These 3 black angus bulls were quietly observing me for most of my stay the first time I worked on Warden Cemetery. I “mooed” a bit and that really got their attention. Last time I […]
Now that I’ve reached the age where body parts start falling off, my doctors get to play Frankenstein with me. They prescribe chemicals to make this or that body function work “better, faster, stronger”. They soup up my thyroid. They unclog my arteries. They want to mold me into the bionic woman. What they get […]
ok, I haven’t posted in a while. I had to dig into the old iPhoto archives to come up with something. Here’s part of the mural from the “coffee’n’cream” establishment in ye olde downtowne McKinney celebrating the discovery of coffee beans by an observant goat herd who noticed the goats were particularly frisky after consuming […]
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