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"It felt strange for this to be
my death, it didn't feel right. My frustration was that
my death didn't
fit me.
It was the wrong size, too small, and I refused to wear it."
-
Christopher T. Shields
"Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets
with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested."
-Hunter S. Thompson
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MY AREA OF INTEREST |
UPDATED |
AND HERE'S A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTO ... |
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| 1986 PONTIAC FIREBIRD TRANS AM | November 23, 2012 | The restoration and ownership of a now extinct breed of classic American high performance grand touring sports coupe. Come back to a time now decades in the past when Pontiac really did build excitement and a time when there actually still was a Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors ... | |
| 1986 PONTIAC FIREBIRD TRANS AM DIARY | October 25, 2014 | The blog of what it is like to own, drive and campaign a classic and highly desired black and gold third gen Pontiac TA that turns heads like a pole dancing nun. | |
| 1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE DIARY | February 22, 2015 |  | Zora Arkus-Duntov's western voodoo is fast and strong ... The blog of owning a 1991 Chevrolet Corvette and using it as a daily driver. Life is too short to drive boring cars. |
| 2004 HONDA CBR600RR | June 15, 2014 | If you're going to ride a motorcycle, ride a real motorcycle and not some neutered, chrome plated, open piped dildo yacht that has all the grace and sound of a flatulent spastic yak on roller skates and more accessories available for it than Barbie. | |
| ANGST & SPEED | August 21, 2014 |
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My blog: updated semi-infrequently and nearly sometimes. Deal with it. |
| AMERICAN ANGST | March 15, 2014 | Harleys aren't real motorcycles and the people who ride them aren't real bikers. I've been making fun of these flag-slathered, trend humping, fashion lemmings since 1993 and for good reason, too. | |
| BLACK VAULT | August 3, 2006 | A collection of original fiction novelettes, award winning short stories, haiku, partial fragments and dark poetry spanning several decades. | |
| DARK THOUGHTS | December 23, 2008 | An optipessimistic view of life in general ... I look forward to seeing the dumb in people. | |
| DATAPULSE | December 27, 2009 | Fast and furious 21st century tactical ground combat in the world of Metagaming and later Steve Jackson's OGRE and GEV microgames (first produced circa 1977 A.D.). | |
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THE LAST FLIGHT
OF THE "ICARUS" |
February 22, 2015 | |
America's first interstellar mission and its remarkable failure. Studying and extrapolating the spaceflight technology behind the classic Planet of the Apes movies. |
| "THE MARCH OF THE 12-BACKS" | September 1, 2014 |
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A blog celebrating the memories of growing up, through and out of "Star Wars" and experiencing the magic and awe of the 1977 blockbuster movie as a wide eyed 8 year old child. |
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"A SLIVER
OF CHILDHOOD REMEMBERED" - CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION POSTERS AND ARTWORK FROM THE 1970's |
May 11, 2013 | A decade long personal quest to track down, learn about, meet the artists of and acquire several vintage pieces of 1970's iconic science fiction art. | |
| "STEREODESSY - TALES FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT" | September 10, 2014 |
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Real life tales, humor and stories from the street and from my life, submitted for your entertainment. I've had a very, very interesting life so far. |
| TERMINATOR : 2029 AD - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINES | April 5, 2011 | "The Machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire ... " Continuing James Cameron's epic tale of Man vs. Machine as originally told in his 1984 blockbuster movie "THE TERMINATOR" . |
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"Those who restrain
desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
- William Blake
"Faster! Faster! Until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of
Death!"
-Hunter S. Thompson
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and websites
created, hosted
and maintained
by
CHRISTOPHER T. SHIELDS
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This website was made possible by a high IQ, a razor sharp scathing wit, a dark sense of humor, a unique if somewhat flawed personal code of ethics, a metric ton of God-given natural talent, a generous endowment from my thick wallet, a grant from The Christopher T. Shields Foundation of Continuing Excellence and is supported in full or in part by a black doo-rag, a leather Aussie Outback hat, a broken in black leather jacket, a well worn pair of Ray-Ban Aviators, a pair of well-used leather fingerless driving gloves, Gerber knives and tools, and an oft used, everywhere carried 52 ounce Aladdin insulated Mega-Mug full of syrupy sweet iced tea which in and of itself provides the quench-essential thirst-aid solution to life and all of its multitude of never effing ending nigh-on inevitable problems.