China during the Mao era, Western Wear, Acrobatics, Frank Stanford, Dogs watching tv, Music, Birds, Youth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hardcore small town New Mexico politics of the old school, Flashy jackets, Topsy-turvy, Musical instruments, Animation, Medicine, Surveillance, Adobe construction, Art, Drug wars on the U.S./Mexico border, Old movies, Social Darwinism, Memory arrested at the age one first smoked dope, The poetry business, Higher education, Egomania, Collapse, Lake Tahoe, &c.