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"Instead of getting a cat, why don't we all just stop flushing?" - Red Foreman, "That 70's Show"

Archive for March, 2007

Unrequited “LOVE”

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

I was really looking forward to seeing the Cirque du Soleil performance of “Love” - the epic Beatles production of which I wrote about the soundtrack here - on the evening of February 10. Our tickets were for the late show at the Sahara, so Bob, the Wileys, and I had plenty of time to walk over […]

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Siesta Key 1980: The Beach

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Mom remembers that the Central Printing condo was on a very private area of the beach. In fact Siesta Key itself was a very small and mostly private island - so whenever we had to go into town for food, we had to drive our new 1980 Buick (which my Dad remembers had stick shift […]

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Highlights of the 2000 Convention

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

I had stopped creating my “Dante’s Info” newsletters in the Summer of 2000 around the time that Denise and I attended the Sea-Tac convention. But when I resumed production of them in early 2002, one of the first things I did was to publish the article “Highlights of the 2000 Convention.” Here is the article […]

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Movin’ On Up…

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

This entry combines two events into one posting. One of the last successful autograph attempts I made in the Summer of 1985 was a request I sent to Sherman Hemsley (best known as George Jefferson on the TV show “The Jeffersons”) on August 16. Remarkably, it was not fulfilled until more than two years later…arriving on […]

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Oscar Range

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Denise had just left for a week at Camp Woodland Altars on July 1, 1990 - the day before we were notified that Oscar had passed away. Oscar was the second husband of my Grandma Range, having married one another on July 17, 1970, the day before my parents were lawfully united themselves. He had been diagnosed with a […]

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