At some point in the 80s, I was somewhere in Florida, and a dude gave me a quarter to play a Lunar Lander arcade game … I was in Florida to watch a space shuttle launch. We’d stopped at some gas station and in the mini shop there was an actual Lunar Lander arcade cabinet.… Continue reading The Astronaut and the Quarter
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In the early eighties, I lived in Southern California for part of a year. There was a conservative, protestant religious television show on cable then and there, called something like The Eagle’s Nest. I recall the show in particular because there was one about Halloween, making the argument that real Christians shouldn’t celebrate that holiday… Continue reading Untitled
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Over a decade ago when I worked in retail, the winter frenzy was all about “Holiday†even then.