tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21421491686676967792024-02-19T17:23:00.264-08:00 SNYDERMANIAWILLIAM SNYDER - Author of THE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON and THE SPIRIT GUIDE BAR #167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.comBlogger346125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-46349637678506723162016-01-18T06:36:00.001-08:002016-01-18T06:43:57.263-08:00Educational Management Group FlashbackThe best job I ever had was making educational television programing for EMG. Here's a clip from 1996. Producer/director Marty Meyers and I made hundreds of these shows. The Dancing Troll is singer, songwriter, producer Gary Gidak. Going to work every day with crazy talented guys like Gary and Mary was like hitting the lottery every day.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E40KRTOCuDc" width="459"></iframe>#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-46002917469399557292015-12-28T18:18:00.001-08:002015-12-28T18:23:56.497-08:00"The Eight-Fingered Criminal's Son" Flash-Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a flash-read from THE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON, Starring Dickey "Tom Jones Imburgia," Sophia Snyder, Papa Joe, and Yours Truly. The Video was created by my former students' Austin Imburgia and Steven Bogmill.<br />
Some guys will do just about anything to sell a few books<br />
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<br />#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-9737377555656780192015-12-06T06:45:00.000-08:002015-12-06T15:40:44.068-08:00Prescott Time Travel<div style="line-height: 32px;">
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<b style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p><i>Submitted for your approval: a short working chapter from the time travel book I've been playing with for the past ten years.</i></o:p></span></b></div>
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Slackey; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><em><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">from PRESCOTT TIME TRAVEL</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Slackey; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">by William Snyder</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Slackey; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">© 2005 William Snyder</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Time
and space, and sound, even smell, all of it stopped for a split second. Patrick
immediately understood that it had happened again. He found himself sitting
uncomfortably in an embroidered cherry oak love seat in the lobby. Three women
stood at the front desk directly across from him. Had they seen him appear out
of thin air? They were all tall and angular, like modern fashion models. The
tallest of them wore a loose fitting red dress that hid any hint of cleavage.
There was a large red bow at her shoulder. Two gaudy pink hearts hung on
strings from the bow. Her dress, like the other two, stopped at the knees,
exposing her well-shaped calves. Her jet-black hair was short with a couple of
understated waves. Understated red rouge covered her cheeks and she wore bright
red lipstick. She was a good-looking woman and so were her companions. The
woman in the middle wore a purple sack dress and a red cap that hung low on her
eyes. Short blonde curls swept out from beneath the cap. The third woman wore a
green dress covered with daisies and a brown skullcap-like hat pushed down
seductively over her eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Patrick thought it strange that he’d be checking women
out under such extreme circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh my word,” said the startled tall woman in a red
dress. “I didn’t see you sitting over there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hello ma’am,” Patrick said feeling underdressed in his
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can I help you, sir?” A bellman said, sounding somewhat
irritated, from over Patrick’s shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just taking a load off, Hoss.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Not in here, sir.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Patrick rose instinctively to face the bellman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Now Hoss, that wasn’t what I’d call polite.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sir, it’s nothing personal,” the bellman said,” but
you’re not dressed properly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Fair enough, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoss,” Patrick said and then nodding to the
women. “Ladies.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The woman in red smiled while the others acted as if they
didn’t see him. Patrick walked out the south entrance. The street signs read
Gurley and Cortez. The Hassayampa hadn’t changed at all, but the street was
teeming with old roadsters, puttering along bumper to bumper. The smell of
gasoline was extreme. A boy, who couldn’t be older than six, hawked newspapers
on the corner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Extra, extra, read all about it! President Coolidge to
visit Prescott!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Coolidge?
Patrick flipped through the index cards in his brain. President Coolidge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This put him in the late 1920s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Buy
a newspaper, sir?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sorry, I don’t have any change.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Patrick laughed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What’s so funny, sir?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Don’t get persnickety kid. It’s just that I didn’t know
you guys really said ‘Extra, read all about it.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The kid stared blankly at Patrick from beneath the
oversized bill of his baseball cap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Patrick noticed a teenager examining the engine of an old
jalopy parked on the side of the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Engine trouble, son?” Patrick asked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The boy looked up, absolutely bewildered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You got that right, mister.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Mind if I have a look?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’d be obliged if you would.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Get in the car and turn it over.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Turn it over?<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Turn the key.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The boy slid in and complied. There was a loud grinding
noise. Patrick found the carburetor, unscrewed the cap and pushed the butterfly
flap down with his thumb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Turn it over again, son.”<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The engine began to run. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What did you do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Your butterfly flap is sticking. I can fix it if you can
get me the part. It’s amazing how little the internal combustion engine has
changed in … what’s the date?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“April
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Help
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“1928.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Eighty-one
years,” Patrick whistled. “Sweet Georgia Brown!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re not from around here, are you?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No son, I’m a long way from home.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Me too, I’m from Whittier.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“California?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s right. My brother’s got tuberculosis. We’re here
for the summer. The air’s healthier up here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m Pat Martinez.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He extended his hand and they shook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m Dick, Dick Nixon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-37101109947888434042015-11-01T15:59:00.001-08:002015-11-01T15:59:24.212-08:00The 2015 HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? Book Signing at the Hawthorne Historical Society<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thought I'd post a few Hawthorne Historical Society book signing pics taken my good friend Bryan Frank and his protege, my daughter, Sophia.</div>
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The poster was created by my outstanding marketing man Mike Bender</div>
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Surfer, comic, rocket scientist, singer Keith Boyd belted out Beach Boys tunes like nobody's business.<br />
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The folks at the Hawthorne Historical Society said more than 125 people came out for a most excellent afternoon of nostalgia.<br />
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Here I am with Frances 97 year-old Frances Stiglich. I was happy to support her campaign for a spot on the city council. She is one of the most inspirational people I've had the pleasure to meet. She came to Hawthorne in 1943 to work as a riveter for Northrop Aircraft. The old Northrop factory is now occupied Space X. Frances is trying to convince Elon Musk to send her into space for her 100th birthday.</div>
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I went to Saint Joseph's Catholic School with these beautiful people.</div>
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As for these characters, we did stand up comedy together in the 80s. We used to be pretty funny. Sometimes.<br />
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It was a work day for my beautiful wife and daughters.<br />
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I used to run get into all kinds of trouble with these fellas.<br />
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With members of the Hawthorne Historical Society.#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-21619816605283674322015-10-13T13:09:00.003-07:002015-10-13T20:31:16.433-07:00TIME TRAVEL<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
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<b style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p><i>Submitted for your approval, the opening chapter of the time travel book I've been playing with for the past ten years.</i></o:p></span></b><br />
<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Slackey; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><em><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">A working chapter from PRESCOTT TIME TRAVEL</span></em></strong><br />
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Slackey; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">by William Snyder</span></span></em></strong><br />
<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: Slackey; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">© 2005 William Snyder</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “Mr. Johnson?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> JT
Star shifted from one foot to the other before his coach-counselor, looking
like he was about to explode out of faded jeans and snow-white t-shirt. His
coach, a powerfully built fifty-one year old black man who had once been a
fullback for the Detroit Lions, sat reading the front page of the Arizona
Republic. The rest of the boys were impressed by Johnson’s professional sports
career, but not JT. JT liked Mr. Johnson just the same, despite the fact that
he has black. His father had taught him that blacks couldn’t be trusted, that
they were dangerous, lazy and stupid. JT understood that Mr. Johnson was more
trustworthy, more hardworking, and intelligent than any of the full grown white
men he’d known in Western Kentucky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just a minute, son, let me finish this column.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “I
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “How’s
that work, son? I woke you boys up five, maybe ten minutes ago.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “Cause
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “Couldn’t
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “No.”
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “You
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “Yes,
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “You’re
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"> “Feed
the horses? Yeah, make sure you’re cleaned up and at the mess hall by eight.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes sir. Thank you, Mr. Johnson.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A fantastic white smile flashed across the boy’s handsome
face. He grabbed his worn denim coat from the hanger and bolted through the
front door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Take it easy boy; them busted up old horses ain’t going
nowhere.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JT didn’t hear him. He ran hard along the dirt road,
pumping his arms with everything he had, his eyes zeroed in the on the derelict
stables. He breathed hard as the chatter became louder. A quarter mile out from
the cottage and with no one in sight he began to sing – in his mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>“Born in the valleys and raised in the trees, of
Western Kentucky – on wobbly knees…”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The horses neighed and whinnied as the boy sprinted into
their field of vision. After greeting each horse personally with a hug, JT made
sure each horse got its equal portion of hay, oats and molasses. Although he
spoke no Spanish and they spoke no English, he managed to charm the mess hall
cooks out of a couple of scoops of molasses on a weekly basis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The boy brushed the horses and sang out loud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“<i>All the long, lazy mornings – in pastures of green,
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Starr was free. The horses had the mojo. When he was with the horses, it was as
if the chatter was almost not there at all – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>almost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JT was sixteen and people, especially women, told him he
looked exactly like Brad Pitt when he was young. He was tall and his long
sinewy physique appeared to be chiseled out of rock. Piercing grey-blue eyes
stood out in contrast to his russet skin and disheveled dirty blond hair. He
was also a diagnosed schizophrenic. And he’d been off his medication for three
days now. The chatter, that’s what his grandmother called it; the chatter was
louder, but at least he could stay awake, at least he was alive, not a freaking
zombie. Life was a vicious and inescapable cycle. It was three or four days on
the meds, until he couldn’t take the life of the living dead, and then it was
three or four days with the chatter. The Arizona doctor told him the state of
Kentucky wouldn’t pay for a reevaluation so he’d have to cowboy up for a couple
of months. If only they’d let him stay with the horses; the horses were his
secret weapons, his “chatter busters.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Later that day, Jack Sullivan stood in front of JT and
the rest of his students. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So what was Chekhov trying to say about society?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That we all suck.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was JT’s brother, Willis. JT sunk in his desk and
smiled at his brother. They’d been at the ranch for a couple of months now.
This was the first time the brothers lived under the same roof since their
father was arrested five years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Do you agree with Chekhov, JT?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Don’t you? You’re a teacher. You know more about history
than any of us. You tell us, Mr. Sullivan. Do you think people suck?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes – and no. I guess I could argue either way, couldn’t
I? And that brings us to the assignment. Do people suck? Do you agree with
Anton Chekov’s thesis from <i>The Bet</i>? Does mankind suck? I’m not askin’
for much, a measly three hundred words. You’ve got the rest of the period and
what you don’t finish is your homework.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re a beast, Mr. Sullivan,” one of the boys said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Thank you, thank you very much,” Sully said in his best
King of Rock and Roll imitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The teacher walked over to his desk, thinking that
teaching wasn’t so bad - today, remembering what his old friend, Steve Kirby
had said back in the days when they created educational television programming
at Planet School. At least a teacher can drive home at night knowing he tried
to do something good. It had been almost twenty years since Sully had taken his
first teaching position, a one year gig, just to make a little cabbage while he
got the stand-up and screenwriting career up and running; twenty years – gone
in the wink of an eye. Sully understood it was time to actualize a serious
paradigm shift. It was time to accept his career, his life calling, to embrace
the path that God or the world or the universe had set before him. He was a
teacher. The sooner he let go of the pipe dreams, the better for his students,
his family, and Jack Sullivan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sully popped in an Al Green DVD and the boys wrote, all
of them except JT, who sat staring at the ceiling, an anguished look on his
face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“JT, can I talk to you?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sure, Sully.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They stood outside the classroom. The Queen Creek Boys
Ranch was a beautiful facility. Cows grazed in the pasture. Alfalfa fields
stretched out before the mysterious Superstition Mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re supposed to call me Mr. Sullivan, JT.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s short for Sullivan, right Sully?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JT closed his eyes tight for a couple of seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How long’s it been since you stopped taking your meds?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Three days ago. How’d you know?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m psychotic – I mean psychic.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sully smiled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The
boy forced a smile and stared eastward toward the red Superstitions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">“Sully,
you think old Jacob Waltz really had a gold mine up there?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I think he brought gold down from the mountain, I don’t
know if he had a mine up there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“So you think he got the gold from the Peralta massacre
sight?”<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Who knows? It could have been
high graded from the Goldfield mines just north of the mountains. I take it you
read the book I loaned you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah, before I quit taking the pills.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What’d you do with the pills?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Flushed ‘em.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The voices pretty bad?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The same as always.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You always had the voices?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s not voices – really.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Really?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s mumbling and yelling and singing. For the most
part, I can’t make out the words. My granny called it the chatter. She heard
the chatter too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How long have you heard the chatter?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“When the pigs busted up the meth lab, I tried to fight
one of ‘em – with my dad’s pool cue. Things were pretty crazy. He was pretty
big and I was pretty small and that big fat pig son of a bitch slammed my head
into the door jam. I woke up in the hospital with a busted noggin and a whole
lot of chatter goin’ on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What did the doctor say?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Said it was from the meth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You were doing meth when you were, what, eleven?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No, that’s what the CPS people said, that me and Willis
was usin’ meth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You weren’t?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hell no, Sully.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Damn.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Could you do me a favor?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can you tutor me at the stables this afternoon?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I wouldn’t call it tutoring. Yesterday, I graded papers
and you groomed the horses.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Now you’re catching on, Sully.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JT smiled his million-dollar smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s a deal. But when you go back in there, to the
classroom, I want you to write down what the chatter says.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It don’t make no sense, Sully.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s okay, JT. I’m interested.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You think the angels and the saints are talking to me –
like Joan of Arc?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You never know,” Sully said slapping the boy on the
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<b>This time around I read "Dave Cruz" and "A Two-by-Four With a Whole Mess of Nails" from THE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON and "A Potent Memory" from HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?</b><br />
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<b>I always enjoy the guttural reactions to the description of the excruciating pain resulting from a rusty nail penetrating a bare foot and scraping against the bone. </b></div>
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#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-74756474358430436582015-08-30T14:21:00.001-07:002015-08-30T14:26:11.149-07:00BOOK AND A TACO<b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">THE AUGUST 29th HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? BOOK AND A TACO BOOK LAUNCH WITH TY LUSK AT GUEDO'S </span></b><br />
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<b>The book launch was a smashing success, the biggest ever. Some 200 reader friends, family members, colleagues, and former students showed for their signed copy of <i>HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?</i> and a free Guedo's taco and an afternoon of TY LUSK style entertainment.</b><br />
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<b>I'm hoping <i>HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES </i>propels me to fame and fortune, but I'd be happy with the bowels of the middle class...</b><br />
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<b>Guedo's World Famous Taco Shop in Chandler. Guedo's Taco Shop is the recipient of the New Times award for "the Best Taco in Phoenix," and Guedo's ain't even in Phoenix. That's how good Guedo's Tacos are!</b></div>
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<b>Ty Lusk, the Real Estate Rock star is Chandler's best loved entertainer, but don't get the idea that he's a ham-and-egger. Ty has opened for the Doobie Brothers, Diana Ross, and James Taylor. Even more impressive, he played my <i>Eight-Fingered Criminal's Son</i> Book and Haircut Book Signing at Papa Joe's Barbershop in 2012. I know, HUUUUUUGE! Ty has a the unique ability to interact with his crowd, changing up song lyrics to fit the moment and making frequent wisecracks. I gotta tell you Ty is almost as funny as me. Okay, if were using jokes that are actually funny as a frame of reference, Ty Lusk is probably funnier than I am.</b></div>
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<b>All of this rigmarole involves the launch of my new book <i>HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?</i></b><br />
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MAKE A LITTLE DOUGH, AND GET BACK TO THE COMEDY CAREER.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The comedy
routine got lost in the shuffle and William Snyder’s one year gig stretched
into a 29-year career that included stints teaching at inner-city schools,
Catholic schools, charter schools, accommodation schools, and boys
reformatories, in addition to<span style="color: red;"> </span>working as a
satellite TV teacher and teaching at an upper-middle-class “normal” school that
turned out to be anything but normal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">William
Snyder’s stories are gritty, poignant, funny, and often bizarre, honestly
recounting the triumphs and disasters associated with teaching poor kids, rich
kids, incarcerated kids, immigrant kids, pregnant kids, autistic kids, and just
about any other kinda kid you might imagine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Masterfully written. Hilarious. An eye
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">-Richard Rios, San Joaquin Delta
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">How
Do You Like Them Apples?</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> is a thoughtful examination of the human condition
that drove me into outright fits of laughter. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 110%;">ADVENTURES WITH THE SCREAMING EAGLES</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman Bold'; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">I parked the battered school district van
in the dirt parking lot of the Gila River Indian Community headquarters. The building
had the feel of an old Elks Lodge. It was tattered and weather-beaten; chunks of
paint peeled up from the trim. Ominous black clouds loomed above, casting complex
shadows against the Estrella Mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
guys stay put here for a minute while I find out where the hell we are,” I shouted
over my shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hey
Coach, did it ever cross your mind to get directions before we left the school?”
David bellyached.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
kid was compressed into the back row of the van. At six-five, he didn’t have much
legroom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I
did get directions, David. And we’re here. This is the address and I don’t see a
gym. Do you see a gym? Let me know if I’m missing something here, Dave.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>David
wasn’t even listening. His eyes were closed, and his head was bouncing up and down
to the beat of his gigantic headphones. I pulled open the rickety screen door and
walked into the tribal headquarters. The place smelled of damp wood, pipe tobacco,
and coffee grounds. An old Indian man was reading the sports page with his feet
propped up on a massive empty desk. He was whistle breathing through his nose. A
Garth Brooks tune played on Camel Country Radio.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The man wore thick, black-rimmed glasses,
Wrangler jeans, a blue flannel shirt, and an expensive pair of snakeskin cowboy
boots. He betrayed no reaction when the wooden screen door slammed shut behind me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Excuse
me,” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh,
hey,” he tossed the newspaper on the desk and stood up. “You’re the coach.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes,
I am. Bill Snyder,” I said, extending my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
took my hand softly, barely gripping it with the tips of his calloused fingers.
I had come across that soft handshake with other Indian guys I’d met since moving
to Arizona. I didn’t know if it was a sign of disrespect or respect or just the
way Indians shook hands. It was a personal enigma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hello,
young man. I’m Ned, and I’m the tribal chairman.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
brown face was cracked and weathered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s
an honor,” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
wasn’t kidding. I’d never met a tribal chairman before.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He,
eh…Bill, our gym’s undergoing some repairs. You and your boys wouldn’t mind playing
the game outside would you?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I
guess not. Can’t be much worse than our gym.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah,
I was at your gym for the last game. You’re right, Bill. Our gym’s not that bad,”
he flashed a politician’s smile. “Your gym is the worst gym I’ve ever seen.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
old chairman’s assessment was right on the money. The East Side Gym was a downright
disgrace. Hundreds of students crowded into the building during school breaks, leaving
cigarette butts, chewing tobacco, spilled soda, and soft candy squished and scattered
across the badly warped wooden floor. There were dozens of holes in the roof. When
it rained, and it rained a lot that year, more than twenty buckets had to be strategically
placed from one end of the court to the other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
talked to the maintenance guy, a man who worked to avoid doing any work harder than
anyone I’d ever known, about fixing the roof.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Can’t
do it,” he told me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why’s
that, Brian?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It
was built wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The
gym was built wrong?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yep.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And
that’s why the roof leaks?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s
right, Bill.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And
you’re not going to fix any of the holes in the roof?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Nope.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Someone
could get hurt.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Want
some advice, Bill?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Why
not, Brian?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“December,
January, and February are excellent months to schedule away games,” he said, checking
his watch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“January,
February, and March. That’s the whole basketball season.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sure
is, Bill.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
tribal chairman snatched his keys from a nail on the wall and sauntered over to
the door, the floorboards creaking beneath his cowboy boots.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
and your boys follow me.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
chairman climbed into his expensive pickup, and we followed him along a dirt road
and over a couple of hills to a basketball court in the middle of absolutely nowhere.
The court was naked. There were no buildings in sight, just sagebrush, tumbleweeds,
and a few ghostly mesquite trees. On one side of the court was a scorer’s table
with a flip-card scoreboard. On the other side were three benches for a couple dozen
Indian spectators. Many of them were overweight, some morbidly obese. They gave
us a friendly round of applause when we climbed out of the van.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hope
you boys don’t mind playing outside,” one of the men shouted to us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
was laughter from the crowd.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
boys’ll want to adjust your shots ’cause there’s a wind comin’ in from the west,
eh,” added a man with long hair and a T-shirt that read </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fry
Bread Power.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>More
laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where
do we sit, coach?” one of my players asked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“On
the dirt—or stand, I guess.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sitting
during the game would not be an issue for our opponents. Estrella Mountain had just
five players, and I don’t think those guys ever sat down. They had already gone
through their warm up drills, and they were engaged in a game of twenty-one. I approached
the coach. Looking to be in his forties, he was a tall white guy with thinning hair
and too many broken blood vessels on his nose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“How
you doing, Coach?” I asked<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nothing.
He looked at me and then at my team. The five rez boys had beaten us by two points
three weeks earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The
old outdoor court on the rez trick. Nice move, Coach.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
was no outdoor court on the rez trick. I was trying to be witty, fire up a little
pre game conversation. This guy was having none of it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
better get your boys warmed up,” he said before literally turning his back on me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Does
this mean we’re not meeting for beers after the game?” I asked the coach’s back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nothing.
I thought it was funny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
won the opening tip, and David Thomas got things started when he soared across the
murky desert sky to throw down a monster dunk. Everyone out there responded with
cheers and celebration. One of the opposing players patted David on the back as
he ran by. The Indian boys really got a kick out of David’s dunk. Then the rez boys
shifted into high gear, and, baby, they never looked back. We were down by twenty
at the end of the first quarter. During the second quarter, a couple of crooked-walking,
half-bald rez dogs wandered onto the court. My players ran from the court, allowing
one of the Estrella Mountain boys to score an uncontested layup. The crowd erupted
with laughter. During the third quarter, the ball bounced into the sagebrush. It
was our ball, but my players were afraid of the possibility of being attacked by
snakes or rez dogs. An argument broke out over who should go after the ball. One
of the Estrella Mountain players disappeared into the brush and reappeared with
the ball. He dropped it in front of my five bickering players and got back on defense.
The crowd loved that one, letting loose with more laughter, slapping their knees,
and wiping tears from their eyes. We were down by fifty when Josh Rogan threw up
a fake, blew past his defender, and flipped the ball over to Gary Smith. Gary took
the ball in for the first game dunk of his life. It was a beautiful play. The crowd
cheered with appreciation of sheer athleticism. The ref blew his whistle and signaled
Gary for traveling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s
bullshit!” Gary shouted at the ref.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
ref whistled Gary for a technical foul.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Oh
my God!” Gary shouted, throwing his arms into the air.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Members
of the crowd mocked Gary, throwing their arms into the air, collectively shouting,
“Oh my God!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
that moment Gary lost it, turning to the crowd and shouting, “F--- all of you!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
loved it. A half dozen people were still throwing their arms in the air, looking
at each other and shouting, “Oh my God.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
ref whistled Gary for a second technical and tossed him from the game.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
walked over to the referee and asked exactly where my player was supposed to go,
taking into account that we were in the middle of the desert. He said that Gary
would have to stand over by the van.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
looked at Gary and tears were streaming down his face. He had been totally humiliated.
I put my arm around his shoulder and led him over to the rear end of the van where
he was cut off from the vision of the merciless spectators. Thunder rumbled off
in the distance and lightning exploded across the mysterious gray skies. The sweet,
clean fragrance of desert rain overtook my senses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That
was f----d up, coach,” Gary said through his tears.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah
it was Gary, but that was a helluva dunk you threw down.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It
was my first game dunk.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I
know. How’d it feel?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I
don’t know. I guess I felt like I was flying for a minute there.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s
good, Gary. Just wait here for ten minutes, and we’ll get the hell out of here.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
felt like I should have said something inspirational, but I gave him all I had.
The game had resumed without me. I let my JV players finish out the last few minutes.
After the game, the opposing players shook hands and walked my guys to the van.
Raindrops began to spit against the pale desert floor. I looked for the opposing
coach. He was already in his jeep and making a beeline for Phoenix. We were definitely
not meeting for beers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
spent the next three hours navigating the rain-soaked streets of the East Valley
to drop each player off at his respective doorstep. My shooting guard complained
the whole way because he was last. When I finally dropped him off, I reminded him
that it was me who would be going home last. After driving back to the school at
the old Air Force base, I parked the old van and drove my car home. I was tired
and beaten. As I climbed out of the car, my three-year-old daughter sprinted out
into the rain and leapt into my arms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
pulled my little girl in close and let the rain fall—and everything was good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? </b></i>is collection of stories from my 29 years in the teaching biz. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">The book will release in August.</span></span></div>
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#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-53317284127243685762015-03-14T16:09:00.003-07:002015-03-14T16:09:47.796-07:00MY HEROIC ENCOUNTER WITH DAVE CRUZ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Dave Cruz</i> is my go to story for readings. I had the opportunity to read <i>Dave Cru</i>z to Susan Halberg's freshman English class this week at Red Mountain Community College in Mesa, Arizona. Susan is my go to teacher. She's been inviting me to her classes and sharing my stories with her students since <i>The Eight-Fingered Criminal's Son </i>was published in 2011. I am a huge Susan Halberg fan.</b></div>
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<b>Can't tell you how excited I am to be collaborating with the insanely talented Lyle Tucker. Lyle is currently illustrating<i> </i> <i>THE EIGHT-FINGERED CRIMINAL'S SON. </i>The illustration above is a story called <i>THE SOUTH BAT DAILY BREEZE. </i>Lyle is doing an illustration for each of the <i>Criminal's Son </i>Stories as well as a comic book style cover. This is going to be very cool.</b><br />
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Growing up in Hawthorne California, the Manhattan Beach Pier was just a twenty minute bus ride away. I spent countless summer days experiencing the sun, sand, surf, and surfer girls.<br />
Check out the audio version of <b><i>SURFER GIRL</i></b>, an excerpt from my book <i><b>THE SPIRIT GUIDE BAR.</b></i><br />
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The story was produced by the scary talented <b>GARY GIDAK </b>of <b>GIDAK DIGITAL</b>.<br />
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Do you remember when dopey kids delivered newspapers. Long time ago, I know. Guess it's been a long time since people actually read newspapers, hasn't it?<br />
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Yours truly was a pretty bad newspaper boy. And I'm not talking' the powder blue 57 Chevy kinda bad either.<br />
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You can here about my exploits as a bad newspaper boy for the South Bay Daily Breeze at the is link.<br />
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The audio version was produced by the ridiculously talented Gary Gidak.<br />
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If you're part of my vast army of eleven regular blog readers, go on about your business. You've probably already heard about my books and CD about seven thousand times.<br />
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By the way, my CD, <i>STORIES FROM THE SPIRIT GUIDE BAR</i>, is available on Spotify. I earn 1/16th of a cent every time someone listens to one of my stories on the service. This means if every man, woman and child on the planet listens to each of the seven stories, I can pick up that new toaster I've been eyeballing.<br />
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<br />#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-13233023420157177062015-02-01T09:28:00.003-08:002015-02-01T09:28:53.572-08:00DID I EVER TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME I MET GENERAL GRANT?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met General Grant in the can at the Spirit Guide Bar.<br />
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Here is my shameless link to the audio version of the story:<br />
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Producer Gary Gidak is a stinking genius.<br />
Fred Perez's work on the banjo has been described as beautiful - haunting.<br />
Steve Poyter is nothing short of brilliant as General Grant.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Recently finished James Michener's <i>Poland</i>. I've been a huge Michener fan for a couple of decades. My first Michener book was <i>The Source, </i>the history of the people and events that surrounded a well in modern day Israel. What a ride. I've pored through Michener's books on Alaska, Colorado, Texas, Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay, and Hawaii. Reading the last page of a Michener book never fails to leave me feeling disappointed that the great ride is over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><i>Poland</i> was missing something. It could have been difficult Polish names that slowed me down. Long technical passages about Chopin and other Polish composers derailed me as well. I just didn't have the background knowledge to follow. While I drifted off from time, Michener always pulled me back. Poland's geographic positioning has lent itself to invasions, lots of invasions. The Polish people have withstood invasions by the Tartars, The Turks, The Swedes, Russia and the Soviet Union (3 times), Germany (twice), and I know I'm leaving someone belligerent county out here. The point is Poland remains. The Nazis were responsible for the death of more than 20 percent of the Polish population. Hitler fully intended to exterminate the entire country. After Hitler, the USSR, after centuries of invasions, Poland remains. Michener's story of Poland is one of those great triumphs of the human spirt.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">While I list Poland the worst Michener book I've had occasion to read, it's still falls among the best books I've had occasion to read.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">* Whoa, this is embarrassing. Michener did write a book called <i>Sayonara</i>. While it was an interesting book about American soldiers who married Japanese women during the Post World War II occupation of Japan, <i>Sayonara </i>wasn't nearly as good as Poland. I totally forgot about <i>Sayonara.</i></span><br />
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I'm sitting at the computer enjoying a Fat Weasel Ale, listening to some extra smooth Miles Davis, and trying to make sense of season six of Sons of Anarchy. I binge watched the thirteen episodes over a three day period. All I can say is the violence would make a Mexican drug lord cringe. It's become damned ridiculous. We've got this small town in Northern California with hundreds of murders going down. In the real world the National Guard would declare martial law. Come on. And none of that bang, bang - you're dead business. Each killing has to be more shocking, more gruesome than the last.<br />
Six seasons, hundreds of killings, and there is just one one character with any semblance of ethics. That would be Nero, played by Jimmy Smits.<br />
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Nero is the only good guy in the whole damned show. Then again, it could be that Smits is such a cool cat that I can't help pulling for his character. Where has Jimmy Smits been the last 25 years anyway???</div>
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Oh well?</div>
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What the hell is the point of this show? </div>
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There is no honor among thieves?</div>
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Violence begets violence?</div>
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What compels me to watch this horrific blood fest?</div>
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The truth is I will watch season six at some point.</div>
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Mind you, I'm not proud of this.</div>
#167 Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05069054405824134410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142149168667696779.post-29666403784702943542014-12-20T08:22:00.001-08:002014-12-20T08:22:23.412-08:00Merry Christmas <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spirit Guide Bar is a is a different kind of Christmas story.<br />
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Gotta admitted it, sales have really tapered off. I'm thinking of heading out to the local mall to do some selling out of the trunk of my car this week.<br />
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"Pssst. Hey pal, wanna buy a book?"<br />
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I guess I really need to finish that last chapter of my new book. <br />
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So I'm five weeks into my return to the teaching biz. It's been tough taking over a class that was taught by at least five different people, but there has been progress. Most of the students can now raise their hands to speak and refrain from tacking classmates while entering the room. I'm now working on getting them to stop banging their pencils on their desks while I'm talking. It's been at least a decade since I last taught junior high and I completely forgot about the psychotic pencil banging phenomenon. Some of the little squirts obviously do it to see if they can make make scream at them until turn red, and fall to the ground gasping for air. Others, and these are the ones that baffle me, seem to pound their pencils on their desks completely unaware that they are making a commotion. I knew I has accepting a great challenge when I signed on. Surely, I'll figure something out.<br />
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Sound proof pencils?<br />
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I do like my students and it is pretty cool to have a two week break after five weeks on the job.<br />
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Maybe I'll take another crack at that last chapter.<br />
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Merry Christmas!<br />
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Life is funny. I left the teaching game at the end of the 2012-2013 school year. Seventeen months later, I'm back in the trenches, teaching seventh and eighth graders, many of whom speak very little English. Taking over five classes in the in the middle of the second quarter is no walk in the park. With two of my classes, I look forward to the day my students demonstrate the ability to stay in their seats, and raise their hands before screaming at the lop of their lungs. I'm also looking forward to the day, one little girl calls me Mr. Snyder instead of Mr. Sneeder. <div>
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Early Friday morning, I was making my way through the school hallway when I came face to face with a cockroach the size of a Buick. A month ago I would have terminated the poor sap. In case you're new to my BLOG, I spent the last seventeen months in the pest control business. Exterminating insects never felt quite right. Looking at that giant cockroach, I smiled and stepped aside to let him pass. </div>
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I drove home Friday night satisfied for two reasons. One, I didn't kill anything. Two, at least I tried to do something good.</div>
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