Happy Birthday, Chris March 17, 2009
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My friend Malcolm Christopher Eckel turns 24 today. In honor of your birthday, Chris, I thought I’d pull out a couple pictures from back in the day. Those were good times.
Status Update: Home for the Holidays December 9, 2008
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Vincent is flying home to Virginia this Friday! He’ll be visiting Charlottesville on Saturday for a few days, spending some quality time at home in Blacksburg, and flying back to Biloxi at the end of December. Be in touch!
That is all.
Christmas in Virginia December 28, 2007
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Christmas came with plenty of good food: Crepes, orange rolls, beef wellington, cranberry sauce, salad, gingersnaps, almond butter cookies, peanut brittle, ice cream, and more.
Adding to the list of healthy foods are Dutch treats, like Chocoladeletters — big chocolates that come in all letters of the alphabet:
From the back of one (this is a Dutch rhyme about Black Pete):
“Zwarte Piet ging uit fietsen,
toen klapte zijn band.
Hij moest toen gaan lopen,
met de fiets aan zijn hand,
Hij kwam in een dorpje
en zei tegen de smid.
Ik geloof dat er in mijn
achterband een pepernootje zit.” *
*I do not really know what this all means.
It’s good to see the family and some friends who are around town. Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays!
Post-op December 20, 2007
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Head in bandages for a few days once again. I’m having a birthmark on my head removed, first surgery was in August, second was yesterday. Painkillers seem to be doing a better job, or maybe sutures are less painful than staples. They will certainly be easier for going through airport security.
I’m not planning to let this interfere with enjoying the break, I’ll be up and about and bringing the turban back into style.
Blacksburg’s doing well. It’s very interesting to come back and see the changes in the growing downtown and elsewhere. We’re still waiting on a judge to tell us if the Town can have any say whether or not a Wal-Mart can be built here. I’m encouraged that Blacksburg is putting up a pretty good fight for its right to self-determination. We need more shopping, but we also need it on our own terms, terms which will not drive our local businesses out of business.
Only 5 days til Christmas!
Franken-Vincent September 2, 2007
Posted by Vincent in Mississippi, Virginia.Tags: road trip
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Recently I decided to do something I’ve put off for a while: I had surgery to remove the birthmark on my scalp, which is the type of potentially cancerous thing I was told I didn’t really want on my scalp. More accurately, I’ve had about half of it removed, and the skin around it stapled together, and I’ll need another surgery or two before it’s all gone. Lovely, eh? I quite agree, so here are a couple pictures.
And not for the extremely squeamish:
So now I’ve got eighteen staples in my head, a half-bottle of lame painkillers, and an audio-book from Orson Scott Card, and it’s time to say goodbye to Blacksburg for the summer and drive my little car 14 hours down to Mississippi!
