Ben Stein's Diary: Hot Summer Daze
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Hot Summer Daze Saturday Me no like dis. About six months ago, my bride, Li'l Alex, said that she wanted to take off from work for the whole...
...He should apologize for waking you up," Tommy said...
...We are watching Shine, a "small" movie-meaning no aliens-about a surprising subject...
...But it's not...
...You sure do...
...Maybe we could find out what the Visigoths did when they had a sore throat," I suggested...
...Then I consulted the rental agent...
...52 October 19 9 6 • The American Spectator "Whew...
...But they cried all the time because they were so weak...
...The doctor told me there was nothing wrong with me, and I should take warm baths...
...We're together...
...All right," I said...
...Tommy is the best company on earth, but he's often riding his bike and swimming and playing on the trampoline with his pals...
...Afterwards, Amber, Tommy and I go for another bike ride, past the Memorial Field where the Sandpoint Summer Festival is setting up...
...I told them they had to leave and they cried and I never saw them again...
...But, alas, when you're in the middle of a big lake...
...When we landed, the same passengers clapped their hands together and said, "We're alive...
...Hmmm...
...The heat was gone...
...It took about an hour and a half to arrange our further transit, which would take a long, long time...
...I checked my prescriptions and went back to sleep...
...The father bullied and tortured David cruelly...
...Still, we are now feeling a lot better...
...Then Tommy threw it again, even farther away, and the total stranger swam even farther to get it...
...About ten dollars...
...Peter is co-captaining with me...
...I hate being lonely...
...Anyway, they're here...
...Look how well I can throw this, Daddy," he says as I watch through the window...
...A total stranger swam a long, long way to get it...
...That's basic...
...54 October r 9 9 6 • The American Spectator I wanted to tell her that the way she lived her life made it all worse, not better, but I have told her that many times...
...Monday We have really had a few days...
...It's no joke to take someone's medicine with the hope of getting high-thus depriving that person of his medicine...
...In fact, I find myself playing Randy Newman's "We Love L.A...
...I just opened the window to hear the freight train going over the train bridge...
...The sky is turning pink, and on the stereo, Mary Chapin Carpenter is singing, "I feel lucky...
...His father was a Holocaust survivor...
...Tyrrell reveals the formative influence on the young, fatherless Clinton of the hustlers and rogues who populated his real childhood hometown of Hot Springs (not Hope), Arkansas...
...Maddeningly, while I was in the bathroom, Shoshonna took the last drops of my wonderful paregoric that I need for my intestines...
...We're fine...
...Every frame is informed by genius-lighting, costumes, set design, and above all, acting and writing and direction...
...My stomach started to hurt a lot, probably from all of the bouncing in the boat...
...I took them for a ride on the boat...
...What if you invent something like Newton's Law of Gravity...
...David had a nervous breakdown...
...While having kids at i6 (maybe 15) is far from optimal behavior, the mothers and fathers were behaving very affectionately towards their kids...
...he asks...
...Did you catch something...
...Pshaw...
...He asked me what had happened...
...Tommy and I are on our way back to Sandpoint...
...Haven't you ever had a class in U.S...
...Yes...
...He disappears and then reappears over his quesadilla wearing a pair of oddly familiar dark glasses...
...In a moment, the captain came on the line and said that while his gauges showed everything was normal (yeah, sure), that lurch definitely was not...
...Like being in a cruel prison when you are just a child...
...Genius...
...This house has...
...Tommy, God bless him, asked, "How does a hydraulic system work...
...Bedlam at the pier...
...Keeping their older brothers and sisters company are about io,ooo little children in tubes who are also screaming and making that high pitched sound that little girls make that goes right through earplugs, Sony Discmen, anything you can think of to put into your ears...
...We put away the fishing gear and head up to Jalapeno's Mexican Restaurant and Beach Mart...
...I was reading the Wall Street Journal, as usual...
...That's my discovery...
...Behind them, a flock of enormous ducks with green markings are paddling back and forth...
...He-yes-squealed loudly with delight...
...Kath said, between sniffles, that her father had abandoned their family before she was born...
...This movie restores one's faith in the entire fantasy-making process...
...Did they arrange for another plane to take us on our way...
...Tommy is back...
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...I fell asleep for a few minutes...
...No, never 50 October 19 9 6 • The American Spectator mind...
...It was a good day...
...Daddy...
...They all go through this several times, with Tommy chiming in, "Nixon" and "Ford...
...17 Amber, the babysitter, comes over while I read documents for a trial and then take a nap...
...What makes him lie all-out when even a half-truth will do...
...Now, Tyrrell draws together all the known facts about Clinton - plus many never before revealed - into the most comprehensive, illuminating and bitingly irreverent biography ever written about a sitting U.S...
...Still, we're roaring along Lake Street, Third Street, Huron, Superior, across route 95 just ahead of a cattle truck coming down from Canada...
...It's served up with Tyrrell's trademark biting wit and explained in the context of our cultural crackup...
...It's a lot easier and also a lot cheaper...
...Pshaw...
...Thumb up in front of my eye, and he's gone and I am nothing and life is nothing...
...People learn from example, not precept...
...Of course, this was Alaska Airlines...
...I bought an air-conditioner...
...But I am really, really lonely because Alex and Tommy have gone off on a Virgin Islands cruise for a week...
...I have never felt so safe and happy in a car in my life as I have in that Cadillac...
...In about three seconds, he was playing with a group of little boys...
...It's great...
...If you give me the largest, I'll stay longer at the table...
...If I were to have been held accountable for every mistake I ever made, I would have been seriously punished, at least medically, if not legally...
...Why...
...It's brilliant...
...0"ROURKE No one has done more to lay bare the truth about Bill Clinton's character and career than R. Emmett Tyrrell and The American Spectator...
...If you really need them...
...It's been well over go for about four days now...
...He greeted me wearing purple pants and crescent-shaped bangs over his forehead...
...1 have enclosed $24.95 per hardcover book (356 pages) and 54 shipping and handling per order...
...Noisy, but kind...
...I hunker down and pedal as hard as I dare...
...After stopping to discard used brake fluid from the back of my throat...
...Tommy even did something that melts my heart...
...guy comes along and bothers their squalling brood, are several dozen bikers (at least they look like bikers) with long hair, tattoos, and "don't mess with me" looks on their faces...
...About six months ago, my bride, Li'l Alex, said that she wanted to take off from work for the whole summer...
...But it is...
...Am I the only one who sees the obvious pedophiliac content in this event...
...I told Kath about the movie...
...About two hundred and seventy dollars...
...Great...
...Afterwards, I can see Tommy and Amber throwing the Frisbee on the neighbor's glowing green lawn, lit up by the rain...
...Second, it is much too hot here...
...Then he passes me on Second Street and laughs...
...Sure...
...Twenty dollars for whoever can name all of the Presidents since World War II...
...She's not drinking now, and I forgive her, but she's still crazy...
...Two days ago I picked him and Mommy up at LAX...
...Tommy asks...
...It did not pass and it did not slow down...
...No fair, you were really trying...
...Not today...
...An hour later, I was lying in my bed in Malibu...
...Tommy and I are watching the sky cloud over after this week's stupendous heat...
...Peter is now my double secret hero...
...Saturday A visit from my pal Shoshonna...
...I decided to walk to my deck and see what was going on...
...What moviegoing should be...
...history...
...Thursday I am back in L.A...
...You're ignoring the original cost of the gas grill...
...I gave him ten different kinds of pills...
...Then I felt sick again...
...My pal Kath, the world's best looking call girl, appeared, looking as beautiful as always...
...Can we go on our boat over to Bottle Bay for lunch...
...Did I mention that my whole bathroom counter looks like a collection of every antibiotic known to man, and I still feel miserable...
...What...
...God let us land and be alive together for another day or hour...
...I threw them both back...
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...No," said both girls...
...Mine is a used model that some lumber worker down on his luck had to sell...
...Escorting them, to make sure that no wimpy L.A...
...Anywhere he is and I am is home...
...I recommend the chicken made with sun-dried tomatoes and roasted potatoes...
...Afterward, I took Shoshonna and Martin Luther in my wonderful, spectacularly fine, rented Cadillac to Hills' Resort for dinner...
...Thumb down, and there he is and I'm in paradise...
...The overwhelming evidence - enough to convict any lesser citizen - that the Clinton are guilty of tax fraud, obstruction of justice and lying to government agencies (for starters) "Here is the complete story of everything you had ever heard about Bill Clinton, plus a good deal that you hadn't heard...
...Can we stop and fish...
...4 Martin Luther, whois only four, got allpanicky because ofthe big waves on theboat ride over toBottle Bay...
...They diagnosed various scary sounding maladies...
...No, thank you...
...The house is at a wide, sunny spot on the Pend'Oreille River right next to a large Sandpoint citybuilt dock that is used by the local children for splashing and cavorting in the pristine waters of the river...
...I am asking questions of the kids to determine their fitness for citizenship...
...r i MOVING...
...Tommy looks at me intently as we are hurtling along Pacific Coast Highway...
...So was the salad, and the fish was heavenly...
...He leaned on me and played a cursed ukulele that his mother had bought him...
...bought three steaks...
...The kids look at me in total confusion...
...My son, God love him, did not even look up from his comic book...
...Still, she has her life and I have mine...
...In my pitiful way, I explained it to him, while behind us, passengers prayed...
...I dream I am back in my quiet, very cold, bright air-conditioned room at the Shoreham Towers, with Tommy lying beside me watching TV...
...Keyboarding, reading, yearbook, geometry...
...We went into the Trancas Market and 44 On a day like today,you can see why people will kill to live in Malibu, or at least used to kill to live there...
...Her mother was an alcoholic and often delusional...
...Friday Moming at our little rented house in North Idaho...
...Peter Feirabend, my savior hippie artist/woodworker/philosopher and his dock-building maddeningly fit-looking pal Dana installed it in my window...
...But the patented, extra sugary spare ribs were just as great as ever...
...We'll spend every day on the boat in Idaho," she said gleefully...
...Friends of the fathers and mothers, teens too, also played lovingly with the kids...
...Page after fast-reading page crackles with Tyrrell's signature wit and his fresh discoveries about both Bill and Hillary...
...Rest...
...No...
...No, you're the smallest and youngest" "Yes, but you're always saying I leave the table too soon...
...You may think you've read it all about our 42nd President - but you haven't until you've read BOY CLINTON...
...I am not enjoying this at all...
...A group of teenagers came along on their bikes...
...Tyrell's revealing interview with a member of Prague's "Communist ruling class" whom Clinton visited during a 1970 trip • Clinton's lies: as outlandish as they are often unnecessary...
...You must see it...
...Three, I can't open the windows in any event because it is so incredibly noisy out at that accursed pier...
...This would not be so bad for Tommy, who is eight, or for Alex, who is twelve...
...Hey, no fair," he says...
...Then their father, a fat bearded man with tattoos, picked them up and tossed them in the water-including Tommy...
...Maybe that's just irrelevant because it's just one group of white men quarreling with another group of white men...
...Shoshonna tried to make various 51 The American Spectator • October 19 9 6 excuses for her wrongdoing, but that's what losers always do...
...You could be a mathematician...
...I guess this may have to do with juvenile delinquency...
...I am left alone to wander around this lovely small town like a derelict...
...He shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton's real political mentors and role models...
...BEN S T E I N'S D I A R Y by Benjamin J. Stein Hot Summer Daze Saturday Me no like dis...
...In BOY CLINTON, Tyrrell traces Clinton's life and career from boyhood to the present, drawing heavily on interviews with the friends and associates who knew him best...
...Well, so much for promises...
...He was about thirty feet away and if I held up my thumb, just the top of the thumb completely blocked him out...
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...The biggest lie in America is to say that anyplace except San Francisco does not need air-conditioning in the summer...
...He gives me a big smile and eats his quesadilla through his dark glasses...
...She is in Los Angeles working on a giant secret lawsuit against some major powers-that-be in the entertainment business...
...Why...
...Tyrrell unearths troubling new revelations about Bill and Hillary Clinton, and sheds important light on their activities in Arkansas and Washington...
...Gas grill or charcoal...
...Public service," Clinton-style: Bill and Hillary's shameless sponging off taxpayers throughout their adult lives • His adulteries, and hers • Clinton's habitual lateness and mysterious disappearances from state functions - just an endearing fault...
...Tommy is wearing a bright red sweatshirt and jean shorts...
...It's just horrible...
...Sandpoint is great, but so is L.A...
...It was jammed, packed, humming...
...How much is charcoal per bag...
...So I am lonely...
...Then he fishes under the deck of a lakeside restaurant while I wrestle with our boat's cover which never seems to fit right...
...Martin Luther, who is only four, got panicky because of the big waves on the ride over to Bottle Bay...
...David Helfgott was an Australian musical prodigy at a young age...
...If you invent something really useful, but it's a great job anyway...
...Then, on to Spokane and the great Cadillac...
...Here are the problems, the killers that are making me feel as if I were about to go screaming berserk and break the rivets of my brain: First, Alex is not here...
...Good hearty food from Ivano's...
...3. Return this form to us at the address listed below...
...Nearby, another passenger who had been frustrated by Alaska cursed like a sailor...
...After a sojourn in hell, we are on the road to recovery...
...Stunningly insightful...
...I was still sick, still exhausted, still a wreck from my travels and my bronchitis, the heat and the noise...
...Tommy appeared in his bathing suit...
...I know it sometimes gets really hot in North Idaho, but this is ridiculous...
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...You have to buy and use up twentyseven bags of charcoal before you can even start talking about it," said Tommy, "because little hibachis for charcoal are just about free...
...While we waited for our luggage, he pressed his hair against my chest and said, "Daddy, when are we going back to Idaho to ride our bikes...
...That's why," I say...
...How much did it cost...
...One final trial awaited us...
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...Instead, we're on our merry way to Malibu to water and fertilize the jacarandas...
...Tommy asks...
...Then I had a thought: Why am I upset...
...They might be expected to know a little more...
...Tommy is tall and brown...
...See...
...Tommy had long since fallen asleep in the capacious front seat of the mighty Cadillac...
...There are also a few men with little bellies practicing their color guard drill to open the Festival...
...I went to sleep feeling very angry and upset...
...The babies and the sense of doing right are the gifts...
...I sat on a bench next to two very young women with babies...
...It was like a scene from Spielberg's first horror movie...
...Does that pay well...
...There's a big difference...
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...The fathers, scrawny fellows with tattoos, were playing nearby...
...Well, the Romans used to, and look what they accomplished," said the doctor...
...Little Euclid...
...And he explains how these factors combined with Clinton's Sixties-era radicalism to create a new, more dangerous type of career politician...
...We had been in L.A...
...Because gas takes advantage of immense economies of scale in extraction and transmission...
...We did not get to our house in Sandpoint until well after midnight...
...The added feature is a chilling prologue that plows new ground and adds new questions in the saga of `Boy Clinton.'" -ROBERT NOVAK r YES[ Please nigh me copies of Say Clinton...
...Genius...
...Then a child screams, her bearded, tattooed father guffaws, and I am back at my house of torture...
...As Tommy watches, he says, "Very impressive...
...Daddy, I'm hungry," Tommy says...
...What a great car...
...Tommy asks, just as the raindrops start to fall...
...What if I discover it...
...I want to go swimming," he said...
...I pulled over the car past Broad Beach and squeezed him...
...Tommy and I had a good time in L.A., hanging out at Morton's, looking at the ocean in Malibu, just laughing and scratching...
...Yes...
...Can we ride our bikes into town...
...Never...
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...Uhh, uhh, Kennedy, uhh, uhh, Bush, uhh, Reagan, and Clinton...
...But shouldn't kids know the names of the Presidents...
...Sweat dripped off me...
...Today, it's well, well, well over ioo...
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...I well recall Shoshonna's total shock years ago when I told her that the original Martin Luther had a big something to do with Christianity...
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...If you do, you're going to be a god on earth...
...She and Martin Luther drove off back on their way to Alberta after lunch...
...I watch him and Amber swim and play Frisbee in the water...
...Tommy played in the water by the dock...
...It shows you don't like me that you would yell at me like this...
...All right then," he says...
...Tommy displayed utter sang-froid...
...I sometimes see my mother...
...We were making an emergency landing in Oakland, pronto...
...After the Mexican food, we race home...
...I caught two little ones," he says...
...I am bound to say that the fathers played very lovingly with their kids...
...It's dangerous to go on the lake when it's raining...
...One of them almost died...
...Plus, earth sciences," Melissa added...
...In a perfect Tommy move, he tossed it into the water...
...But they have never heard of Truman or Eisenhower or Johnson or-and this is a stunner-Roosevelt...
...It's very serious stuff...
...Then, boom, out of nowhere, the airplane gave a stunning lurch, as if it had been hit by a missile...
...If there is a better movie before the millennium, I will be surprised...
...I was hungry after the movie so I went off to Morton's by myself for a snack...
...Don't I look just like you...
...And I had been promised that it would be quiet and peaceful...
...Bob says things about Bill Clinton that even Hillary wouldn't say...
...All right," I said...
...Tommy," I said, "you are so good with math concepts...
...I took him to the Bonner County General Hospital Emergency Room...
...He climbed into my lap for a few minutes and I smelled the sun through the window on his hair...
...These are really, really kind people...
...I used to own purple pants like that, long ago...
...for a week...
...But thanks to friends, he went on to lead half a life...
...Naturally, instead of being grateful and apologetic, she demanded various additional things from me like paying for various parts of her trip...
...They completely cover about a third of his face...
...It made me tough...
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...She's a devout woman from Beverly Hills who happened to be passing by on her way to Alberta, Canada, with her son, Martin Luther...
...The iron law of children: if you have them and love them, life is good...
...I went to a local doctor...
...They're both white, but they are great fans of Martin Luther King, Jr., so they honor him with the use of that name...
...That's hard to believe," Tommy says...
...We were on a flight from L.A...
...Tommy ran back into the house and got a wooden model airplane...
...Clear Eyes, Clear Eyes...
...About two miles before the Long Bridge into town, I pulled over and the cat - de truck roared by...
...We lived next to terrifying housing projects," she said, "and my mother would tell us to just deny that they were even there...
...I arranged to rent a lake-front house, at staggering expense-Sandpoint is not cheap-and then to rearrange my glorious work schedule to have us spend most of July and August in Sandpoint...
...president...
...After dinner, we hurtled through the night...
...We're alive...
...Tommy and Alex are "tubing" and having a great time...
...to Seattle, minding our own business...
...It's hot and clear and beautiful...
...Oakland to Seattle, and then Seattle to Spokane, and then Spokane to Sandpoint by my favorite mode of transportCadillac...
...Bueller, Bueller" went through the crowd...
...Bueller, Bueller...
...he asks...
...Are we going to barbecue our food tonight...
...Then I had an insight while lying in bed...
...Moreover, I intend to give each and every kid/parent a lavish gift before the end of the summer for not murdering their babies...
...We got to Seattle, vamped in the Alaska equivalent of The Admirals Club, where everyone but me was watching the gymnastics competition on the Olympics...
...Tommy wants to swim after his bike ride...
...His blue eyes and blond hair stand out against it and against the bright green trees behind him...
...7~ Rachel, and Peter's daughter's friend, the also lovely Melissa...
...Daddy," he says every time there's a bite...
...He discovered it...
...The resort was just as perfect as last summer...
...This sounds awful...
...Daddy, can I get some sunglasses...
...Tommy's is a powerful new mountain bike...
...I carried him up to bed...
...Well, I guess those are as good as U.S...
...No...
...We are in a safe place...
...Little Adam Smith...
...Did I mention that I have a vicious bronchitis and sore throat that will not quit no matter what I do...
...That's all there is to it...
...The wind is whipping through my 51-yearold scalp and Tommy is racing along behind me, pedaling furiously...
...Tuesday After a good night's sleep, we are out on my boat, the mighty Sea Trixie...
...It's raining, but what the heck, it's summer and he's eight...
...I enthusiastically set to work to make this watery vision a reality...
...I really hated to leave, but Tommy has his pals in Sandpoint, so back we went this morning on our nemesis, Alaska Airlines...
...He was across the hall in his room watching a vile show for kids...
...1. Please write your new address in the space provided...
...I put him to bed...
...We're in Encino, land of Milken, in my friend's private screening room...
...It's a long drive through lovely forests...
...I 2. Attach the mailing label from your most recent issue...
...He's jumping in and out of the wavelets leaping for the light green Frisbee...
...cabin...
...In the morning, I forgave Shoshonna and told her so...
...So, "judge not, lest ye be judged" is the name of today's tune...
...In my own life, I have done many terrible things...
...Not a sou...
...The women, aged 16 and i6, were the mothers of these babies...
...They would not accept even one penny of pay...
...Plus, no one said a word through the whole movie...
...Frankly, I just could not bear to be away from my girlfriend, Ginger the dog, not to mention my wife and many friends...
...Clinton Stories the Media Missed-- Or Buried • Did then-Governor Clinton knowingly benefit from the profits of a cocaine-smuggling ring operating out of an Arkansas airport...
...The mighty Caddy Seville STS roared through the night and got me to my destination, the only working gas station bathroom within thirty miles, safe and sound...
...Every teenager in North Idaho is out there today jumping in the water and screaming...
...This was just days after the TWA Flight Boo bombing...
...Well, Newton didn't invent that...
...he asks...
...Very impressive," I say...
...But first I'll need a research grant...
...I was extremely angry...
...No, someone like you can't imagine what my kind of life is like...
...Well...
...The cursing man came over and woke me up to apologize for cursing in front of Tommy...
...Did he check the "bomb" gauge...
...A friend from New Line called and asked me to a screening at his house, and that's where I am...
...Little Ricardo...
...I love this kind of spirit...
...What classes do you take...
...Much-too-loud music came from the bar...
...BENJAMIN J. STEIN is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Hollywood and Malibu...
...Air-conditioning...
...A law as important as gravity...
...Naturally, it comes from Australia, not from Hollywood...
...God has just spared Tommy's life and mine...
...I try to imagine what life would be like in a really terrible family," I said...
...Tommy has gotten so much taller since last summer that he is almost as tall as Amber who is twenty...
...I sat down on my deck and watched him swim...
...Gas is cheaper than charcoal...
...I catch up with him and pass him just as I get to our house...
...Daddy," he asks, "do these remind you of anyone...
...Well, I hope he makes it through the night alive, without killing me or anyone else...
...We stop at the boat and get out Tommy's fishing gear...
...I did look up and saw panic in the 44 Then, boom, the airplane gave a stunninglurch, as if it had beenhit by a missile...
...no air-conditioning, and even with fans, it's desperately hot...
...I didn't plan to spend a stone fortune on this rental house to broil and be miserable in it...
...Well, I just saw a pair I really like," he said...
...I said maybe a problem with the hydraulic system deploying prematurely...
...I'm going to start tomorrow...
...Monday Nof a good day...
...He also points out many previously unobserved connections in the evidence against the Clintons, and nails down countless contradictions and inconsistencies in their public statements about it...
...Losers make excuses...
...We just got these bikes a few days ago...
...I asked...
...But the two girls are fifteen...
...I sat at the bar and had crabcakes...
...He did...
...Gas...
...Too many people I know in Sandpoint have been killed by crashing into cattle trucks or cattle trucks crashing into them...
...He cried and said he wanted to go home...
...A mile away, I can see a Burlington Northern freight train barreling across the railroad bridge over the Pend'Oreille River where it enters Lake Pend'Oreille...
...They shoehorned us into other flights...
...The "peculiar pattern" of deaths of people connected to the Clintons during their rise to power - serious questions that cant be dismissed with accusations of conspiracy-mongering • Bill & Hillary's college years: keys to understanding their politics, and their characters...
...Or that I am dripping sweat and my head feels as if the Burlington Northern runs through it...
...Is one of them bigger than the others...
...God brought me home along with my little boy...
...One of the Hills actually came out from the kitchen and wanted to comp our meal because the main course was a little slow coming out...
...On a day like today, you can see why people will kill to live in Malibu, or at least used to kill to live there...
...Especially earth science...
...Maybe not...
...I walked out to the pier...
...The driver flipped me the bird...
...Despite the Caddy's great power, the truck always caught up and stayed behind us...
...I really have very few friends here, and the ones I do have are often busy working for a living...
...To make matters even worse, occasionally, between screams, I fall asleep...
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...Even though his gauges showed everything normal...
...We happy-golucky North Idaho folks don't care about that...
...You would rarely find it in the big city...
...In some kind of strange potlatching ritual, they threw their bikes into the water and then did not dive in to rescue them, just let them lie there...
...I also determined that they had never had a class in English literature and had barely heard of Shakespeare...
...I want that one...
...Tommy came down with whatever I had...
...About twenty miles from Sandpoint, on a lonely, dark Route 95, an immense cattle truck got right in behind us and stayed right on our tail...
...She wanted to know what it tasted like because "you seem to get so much relief from it...
...Of course not...
...See," he says...
...It helped that the screening room had almost perfect sound and spectacularly clear optics...
...Tuesday Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah...
...When I was in my early twenties, I had slaves, guys who would do anything for me because I seemed tough...
...We are taking Peter's son, the daredevil Alex, Peter's daughter, the lovely 44 The doctor greetedme wearing purplepants and crescentshaped bangs overhis forehead...
...It's mass produced, so to speak, while charcoal has to be made and distributed by hand, so to speak...
...over and over even when I am in Sandpoint...
...Tommy was reading "Garfield...
...I sat in the Oakland Airport and felt crazy...
...He's like an advertisement for boyhood...
...I went back inside, shaved, had breakfast, and then put on my bathing suit...
...It was like Nirvana...
...You shouldn't have left it where I could get it" "You shouldn't have taken it in front of me...
...Sort of...
...Your life will be historic...
...He was on his back for a minute and then he came to and swam away...
Vol. 29 • October 1996 • No. 10
