Boy names were a struggle. RJ liked Chase, but I wasn’t a fan because it made me think of Chevy Chase. I wanted Emmett, but RJ cringed at the thought of naming his son after Emmitt Smith, the Dallas Cowboys running back who beat his beloved Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. We ...
But it’s all true, every word. We did have purple snow, at least in Streator, Illinois, where my boyhood was misspent. Other cities must have had it, too. Each winter, the snow tumbled down in December—pure, fluffy, altogether white. Over the next three days, the snow on the gro...
Jay-Zturned 54 days before "A GRAMMY Salute To 50 Years Of Hip-Hop" aired, and it was somber to consider his contemporaries who didn't make it to see the culture's golden anniversary. Names such asthe Notorious B.I.G., who grew up with Jay-Z, as well asNipsey Husslewere shared ...
While some do have cruel, psychotic, and sadistic tendencies, others can exhibit love, respect, and friendship. Case in point: in Natsume's Book of Friends, the titular lead is a teenage boy who can see and hear the Youkai spirits; but instead of destroying them, he treats them with com...
The Jack of Diamonds is known as the Laughing Boy, and in some variations of Poker and Black Jack, players are expected to chuckle every time this card is played or drawn. Curse of Scotland The Scots consider the Nine of Diamonds to be an unlucky card, and its nickname goes back to ...
Game Boy The Game Boy was Nintendo’s second venture into handheld video gaming and found immediate success,selling over 1 million unitswithin weeks of its 1989 release. The small gaming system, which came packaged with the wildly popular Tetris, combined elements from Nintendo’s NES gaming cons...
we had grown to hate ourselves and our country. In that sense, the Eagles were a metaphor for our low self-esteem during the tail end of that decade. No wonder we didn’t shed any tears when the band folded at the dawn of the ’80s—they so epitomized an era that their time had ...
them is another oremonition in the boy Charlie Ninto's day-dreams: . When duty cells. Detective-InspectorMinto is alwayset the ready. It wss, 1 recall, a raw November eveningwhen it all been: the iog prared againstthe windowlike a glomnyshroud, but insidethesceneweejolly and mua; e ...
He has reverted to being a normal, sociable young boy, we are free of the tension and worry, and he is so happy and calm it is a pleasure to watch him. We are not pretending that sticking to the diet has been easy. It is very restrictive for someone his age. But we have Cases,...