Balboa

posted about 1 year ago, updated about 2 hours later | 0 comments
As far as the Conquistadors were concerned, Balboa was a cool guy, wasn't he? They named a park and a zoo after him. You don't name parks and zoos after assholes, do you? Really, have you ever heard of the Adolf Hitler Zoo and Skateboard Park?

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Lima, Peru

posted about 1 year ago, updated about 19 hours later | 3 comments
Here, at the intersection of fiction and fact , I conjure.----------

Lima, Peru lies in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific.

Lima was "founded" by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro...

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We're number one.

posted about 1 year ago | 4 comments
in:

1. Military spending.
2. # of McDonalds
3. Nobel Prize winners
4. Gross National Debt
5. Tornadoes
6. # of billionaires
7. Corn production
8. Oil Importation
9. Olympic Medals
10. Country music stars

So:

A profile of our first rated attribu...

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Mentored

posted about 1 year ago | 9 comments
I was once advised to live my life like a song. Well, as it turned out, I'm not all that lyrical. So, I live my life like a cheap novel, or a comic book.

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Attitude.

posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
How many times have you stared at the knotted crowd on the dance floor that stood between you and a coveted seat at the bar, and thought, "Damn the consequences, I'm going through."

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Arizona

posted about 1 year ago, updated 5 minutes later | 5 comments
Part of what I remember about Arizona involved a bar with linoleum walls and a mirrored ceiling. The owner told me that the linoleum made for easy clean up and repair, and the mirrored ceiling allowed the bartenders and bouncers a bird's eye view ...

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