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Postcard: American Freedom Train

December 22nd, 2014 · No Comments

Card is titled: “The American Freedom Train™ 1975-1976.”

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Postcard: Egyptian King on a Staff

October 27th, 2014 · No Comments

Card is untitled on the front.

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Postcard: Bunker Hill Monument & Flag

October 13th, 2014 · No Comments

Card is titled: “Bunker Hill Monument. Boston Massachusetts.”

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9/11/2014

September 11th, 2014 · 2 Comments

As I was dressing at home, I heard excited voices from the TV in the other room. There was something that looked like a disaster movie on, and I switched it off. Twenty minutes later, I was walking through the back door of Laser’s Edge Compact Discs, ready to start the workday. Michael had arrived […]

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Tags: history · music · TV

Postcard: Egyptian Child’s Chair, c. 1330 BC

March 25th, 2013 · No Comments

Card is untitled on its front.

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Rare Confederate Currency

October 1st, 2012 · No Comments

I found this incredibly rare Confederate 100 dollar bill in a now-shuttered antique mall in Birmingham, Alabama, around 2009.

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The Perils of Trusting Wikipedia

January 8th, 2011 · No Comments

This is what Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s Wikipedia page looked like at 1:37 p.m. CST on 8 January 2011. Click on the image if you wish to enlarge it. As of 2:00 p.m. CST, Rep. Giffords was reported as still being alive. The Wikipedia page had been updated to reflect this.

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Tags: history · politics

NaNoWriMo word cloud

December 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments

Can you get an idea about what is happening in this work-in-progress by reading its word cloud?

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Tags: fiction · history · ideas · language · writing

Attack Dogs

October 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Sculpture in Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama.

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SA 9·11

September 11th, 2010 · No Comments

I check the time on my wrist and notice the date. In digital form, it appears a brand on my skin, a match to the one on my memory.

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Tags: CNFtweet · history · self