Just a heads up: This year’s tree party will be Saturday, Dec. 16. We’re hoping to have Sarah Schwabe and her Yankee Jass band again this year. For out of town folks, let us know if you plan on coming to KnoxVegas for the festivities. We have lots of room …
My friend Tom’s humble-looking but totally souped-up Turbo Mirage is getting rave reviews on Autoblog. His unassuming little wagon is fast as anything. I don’t understand half of the details behind it, but it’s still cool as hell.
Generally I’ve found Morning Edition’s StoryCorps project to be pretty hit or miss. The oral history project roams the country giving normal people a chance to tell their stories.
This morning’s segment was a definite hit.
In it, Ken Kobus tells the story of his steelworker father, who toiled in Pittsburgh’s J&L works. The part that really got me, though, was when Ken described his father, dying of cancer and on morphine, making odd motions in his bed.
The doctors where befuddled, but Ken figured it out right away. He told the doctors: “He’s makin’ steel. He was opening furnace doors and he was adjusting the gas on the furnace and traps. “I could see, I could see what he was doin’.”
Reading it really can’t do this justice. Go to the NPR page and listen to it. Amazing stuff.