Spitball Army

And everyone was just in these human piles and the ones that were freaking out and the ones that were giggling were just like mixed up like a whole can of worms. And I’ll tell you, it worked.

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The collection is worth millions of dollars — Mawhinney’s personal estimate is at least $50 million — but he has received only one solid offer. That bid of $28.5 million fell through. Other parties have shown interest, and Mawhinney says he continues to talk to a few interested parties. He has set of goal of selling the collection by March 1.

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V-mail was originally based on the British “Airgraph”, and was an unusual and ingenious system for delivering mail from United States troops to home addresses during World War II. V-mail correspondence worked by photographing large amounts of censored mail reduced to thumb-nail size onto reels of microfilm, which weighed much less than the original would have.

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I read the news today, about a gang of kids who broke into Robert Frost’s winter farmhouse in Vermont and had a party. This was no mundane social gathering – the evidence of the event provokes a mental image wherein some human sub-species unleashed itself within the walls of the historic home and hurled objects, burned furniture, urinated and vomited at will and wherever it felt the need. Oh, boy.

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The padre invited me to play a game of cards. I accepted. We played and he won all the sugar. I did not know the game and I had no idea that the priest would win, but he did and I returned home with nothing. When I turned over the sugar to him, Father Menendez said to me: “See here, Pico, it has happened to you as it did to Christ when he came into the world.”

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