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How this blog got its name
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There was a large painting of Evel Knievel shaking hands with Richard Nixon. It hung in the Mayors office. Late one evening after everyone went home. I took it down to the lab. I zoomed in on Evel’s left eye a 100x and enhanced it. It was an address. I went to the address. It was a modest, 1970’s style, split level ranch home in the suburbs.
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Inside I found a dead parrot lying on a waterbed. I revived the parrot with some saltines and adrenaline. We became good friends. The parrots name was Randy. One night a few years later while Randy and me played Gin Rummy, he sang me a song about a fire. The title of this blog was never mentioned but I sensed it, and Randy confirmed it by giving me ‘THE LOOK’.
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30 years ago today Philip K. Dick was found unconscious in his apartment in Santa Ana, California as the result of a stroke. He never regained consciousness and died on March 2cnd 1982.
I’m selling some postcards I designed on ebay over the next couple of weeks to celebrate his life, work, and vision. All proceeds go to a great little charity called Read A Story which reads books to kids and them gives them a copy of the book to share with their family and friends.
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