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Got invited to a "Michigan State Fair" way, way out in the boonies in Gowanus, Brooklyn, it took me over an hour to get there. I was amazed to find a capacity crowd of ex-Michigan residents. It's a sad time for my home state if all the kids are moving away. Average age was about [...]

A tour through one of the most influential years in America, with Steven Spielberg, E.T. the beginnings of rap, hip-hop, and break dancing, arcade video games, home video games, $99 personal "computers," 44 channels of cable TV, a major recession, the unveiling of the Vietnam Memorial, the first word processor used by Steven King which [...]

I'm a New York transplant, first got to NYC 13 years ago, been here off and on, but now a longtime permanent downtown Manhattan resident. Perhaps this will sound a little odd, but I go out of my way to befriend native New Yorkers (I'm giving one such native a hard time in the photo, [...]