George Stranahan

Lincoln Logs

July 9th, 2007

I remember the kindergarten room, or perhaps I remember one event in the room that is so burned into memory that I also remember the room, the venue of that event. The light came from windows on the East and South walls, the entry from the hall was on the West wall, and just to [...]

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Don’t Push the River

July 9th, 2007

Betsy was my childhood sweetheart, and perhaps I was hers. We never talked about that amongst all the things that we never talked about. Given some stress, five kids, and a cadre of local disaffected high school students hanging around our house, what did we do? Bring in another kid to pull ourselves back together [...]

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Let Flying Dogs Fly

July 12th, 2007

There is also the beer business, where the outlaw expresses his bona fide form. And the image behind Flying Dog Ales was trained to embody the amalgamated personas of George, Hunter S. Thompson, and Ralph Steadman, Thompson’s trademark illustrator and the artist behind the Flying Dog Ales labels. Flying Dog is the underbelly of George, [...]

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    • Coprophilia
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    • A Place to Grow, I
    • Bright Yellow Petals
    • Art is Meant to be Shared
    • Ten Summers, One Winter
    • A Place to Grow, II
    • A Case of Iramite
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