Pomona..and Valdosta...

..a little Georgia community of legend once spawned a ruff and ready kid I was tending after when TA in my Seattle HS band class. Don't remember his name; just remember how bradaccio didn't become him. Learned lots about competitive marching bands (a phenom unknown in mellow Puget Sound communities), as well as how someone can promote themselves into getting attention..just to disappear a heartbeat later...something I would know about.........Never did see the little trombone one man band after day 3............
Very interested in how the American Drag Racing League are going to handle a "manufacturers meet" sized pre-entry of over 80 unlimited doorslammers this weekend. It WILL be historic..either as the second coming of the Super Stock Nationals...or the'74 New York PDA meet .....for door cars.

Everywhere I went in Portland on Mon. the 13th, it seemed I ran into John Force fans...on the street..cops in coffee houses...the human resources goddess at the agency I was scoping out.
A 4.66 gets one's attention. NHRA lucked out with unusually warm conditions during the early weekend. The fully funded firstoftheseason showcase did it's usual magick on people..like the opening day of baseball. The fifty or so owners of national circuit 'pro' machines now enter the real competition of justifying their presence in front of seven figure financial expectations....an exercise, historically, of diminshing returns.