by PJColando | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published an article by George Plimpton that described an incredible rookie baseball player who was training at the Mets camp in St. Petersburg, Florida. The player was named Sidd Finch (Sidd being short for...
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by PJColando | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’ve had a host of house guests in Casa Colando, California: most interesting, some sublime, some ridiculous, some petty, a nervy test to the nerves. Reader beware, lest the latter people come to inhabit your house. A couple called, saying that they were flying...
by PJColando | Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
As you may recall I am a process-oriented person, not a product-oriented person. So it was not what happened, but how it happened that shook me to my core. I was seated in my car, just a few minutes before 5:00 on a week day, stashing the dry cleaning receipt in the...
by PJColando | Mar 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
I have a nighttime talent that goes beyond sleep and sex: I awaken whenever dreams go awry with malicious, malevolent content. Seriously. The nightmares are infrequent, thank goodness, for the villains are vibrantly real, the faces fully recognizable – and, if...
by PJColando | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Recipe: Knock You Naked Brownies Prep Time: 15 Minutes | Cook Time: 23 Minutes | Difficulty: Easy | Servings: 12 Ingredients 1 box (18.5 Ounce) German Chocolate Cake Mix 1 cup finely chopped Pecans 1/3 cup Evaporated Milk 1/2 cup Evaporated Milk (additional) 1/2...
by PJColando | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The amphitheater signage has been replaced and soon the razing of the superfine outdoor musical arena will start. Dusty yellow megaton Caterpillars will crawl about the natural bowl of the earth to imbibe all man-made materials: gobble, gobble, chomp. The hills will...
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