July 2010

GEAR

July 28, 2010

Ahhh, mid-summer. The prelude to fall…my favorite time of year. Cicadas have begun to echo their rattling song in the lush heavy-ness of a quickly approaching August. The day’s heat is trading its oppressive edge for a longer shadow. All the busy-ness that’s accumulated since the winter is passing in one great, final exhale right [...]

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1985

July 7, 2010

I was in 8th grade. Live Aid and We are the World. Reagan was sworn in for a second term. The first WrestleMania went top-rope at the Garden. Somewhere in Canada, a brand-new, black Ford F-150 Stepside rolled off the production line. Some twenty-five years later, the new version of We are the World failed [...]

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