ENGL 505A

I don't fancy myself a blogger, but I started one up when I was prepping for the move to keep friends and family in touch. Feel free to check it out at: threatlevelmidnight.blogspot.com

Here's an excerpt from my first visit out to Indiana:

The sun loomed overhead like a vulture swooping around its prey, waiting for the last gasp. Our heads hung in the heat like laundry on a wire, left to dry too long. Traffic choked the interstate, threatening the freedom that only the horizon could promise. Erin (played by Catherine Zeta Jones) turns to me. "We gotta get off this road," she croaks, her voice and lips cracking. "Make it happen, Number One," I respond.

Unfolding the creased contours of our map, contours that had no right to exist in a land so flat, Erin navigated our way off the highway and on to the less congested streets of Bum-wad County, IN. Armed with her wits and the setting sun, she set our course and I followed direction. Miles passed behind us. Schools and trailer homes, villas and farms, fields and natural, unblemished, fresh-water aquatic environments waved us on.

The sky was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man, trying to send back soup at a deli. (Seinfeld, The Marine Biologist). Then, in the distance, it rose up to meet us. Like a finger of god reaching out from the crust of the earth itself........

The world's largest rocking chair

I tell you, it was a hundred feet tall if it was an inch. The wood thick and dark like a fine maple syrup. I walked up to the giant chair as it creaked in the wind. I said "EASY big fella!"

Anyway, Erin and I got some pictures with it.
http://threatlevelmidnight.blogspot.com/2007/05/more-mid-west-fun.html