I picked it up to increase intensity.

I felt like I was cold because the hand had gone numb.

My agent called with good news and bad. The good was that scouts from Taiwan were holding an open tryout. The bad? It was in West Palm Beach the next morning.

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.

Mine is a straight, nothing-fancy, down-and-in delivery with a small hook at the end.