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Originally published on this Blog Nov 21, 2015 There was a day when I stopped time Or better said: I saw time stop to check its hair in a mirror Watching Kuwait invasion on TV at a bar, while reading that day's paper which held - you know - the previous day's news It took many beers, years, cigarettes, and news editions to get to the moment Where the datelines chase the deadlines and portend the news about diplomatic shuttles and armed buildups on a border. And you could see the future there even though it was the day after like sam spade Sam spade in The Maltese Falcon reading The Shipping News  and He sees a notice, the La Paloma is arriving. A little column of type not even spinning in animation. He circles it. In the film he heads to the docks. Emergency is evident. The ship is on fire Fire foretold in a close up of a column in a paper. Just like the wormhole of Kuwait.

Leo Beranek, Engineer of Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Dies at 102 https://t.co/NcIHcj2F5z — Jack Vaughan at TT (@JackVaughanatTT) October 18, 2016 test

Boko, Bono, Borno In the city, the villagers arrive. From the remote areas of the Borno State. Tented, they wait. The poorest people on the planet, some of them. Wait they do for food to arrive. They run from Boko Harmum. And Rape. Murder. Beheadings. Child suicide bombers. In New York, Bono canvasses the world leaders at the UN. They never have found those girls, have they?

Sharon rose uncurling Sharon rose uncurling cornstalk sprouting Sunflower unveiling All the grass disrobing All around me Falling on the ground n Reaching for the Sun Summer going But it ain't happened yet When I live in the summer I live with the growing things n Praise to the Creator That I can walk through the garden universe.                       - Jack Vaughan, Sept 11, 2016

As a followup, about a week later...from the obit for Robotics pioneer Victor Sheinman - turns out that The Day The Earth Stood Still Really Freaked him out.... “My first contact with robots occurred when I went to see the movie ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ as a kid maybe about 8 years old or maybe 9 years old,” Mr. Scheinman recalled in an interview with the Robotics History Project of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. “And I was terrified by the robot in that movie and had nightmares over it,” he continued. “In fact, one night I woke up and saw the robot standing in my room. I’m convinced it was there. So I hid under the covers after that for many weeks.” As therapy to allay his fears, his father persuaded him to build a wooden version of Gort, the 8-foot-high, laser-equipped robot from the movie, which was released in 1951 and starred Michael Rennie.  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/technology/victor-scheinman-dead.html

Update Aug 29 - The Apple Press Fest was a great thing. That cider was good! So glad to be able to get in front of a microphone and belt a few heartfelt numbers. I was joined in, and I am so thankful for, accompaniment by Mark Schlack on GTR and Jake Vaughan on drums. It's been a long time between gigs for The Jack Vaughan Experience.  But the timing was right. Here is the set list: Apple Cider Reel Im Tore Down Reconsider Baby Dead Flowers - Voc. Jake Come On Let's Go I Live The Life I Love It Takes A Lot to Laugh (It Takes a Train to Cry) Voc. Mark Muswell Hillbillies Mission Hill Annual Cider Press Fest - Sunday August 28, 4-6pm Top of the Hill, Upper Terrace (4th tier) McLaughlin Playground [Across the street from 170 Parker Hill Ave.] Enjoy cider from Roxbury apples - Music from The Jack Vaughan Experience, and Woodland tours. Press on! Mission Hill Apple Cider Reel or Jig I love my apple cider I get it up on mission Hill I love my ap...