The 2023 Notional AC100. The venerable Angeles Crest stumbled into 2023 with a finally redone website. Congrats! Most of the photos are bright and shiny, and non-synchronous to actual locations. However, it's a considerable improvement. No idea if the signup is as buggy and weird as it was when the Next Day Lotto was unleashed several years ago. Everyone Has A Plan… RACE CANCELLED FOR 2023: SKIP TO THE END The Race has been able to rejoin its point-to-point origins, with continued mods by fire and bio-edict. RIP incinerated Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog [MYLF]. 2022's out-&-back is now an asterisk in the rear-view mirror. The new course map and descriptions are confusing. It was deja vu to 1990 for me all over again, only in color. Map shows a Chantry pass-thru, while text indicates an out-n-back from Red Box to Newcombs, then up the Kenyon Devore over Mt Wilson. Thence over the top down to Idle Hour, to its eventual conclusion at Loma Alta in Altadena CA. Any Kenyon Devor
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"You're smart, make us some money on TV" That was my then-wife in 1984. We were broke. Our freelance design/pasteup clients had dried up. The TV was on all day, from 7am to 11pm at night. Which meant daytime television, and game shows. She thought since I knew a lot of stuff, having read books, I could ace it. Sure. I was broke enough to think that. So I started making calls to find out how it worked. Which led to auditions for $20,000 Pyramid, and Wheel of Fortune. $20,000 Pyramid The Pyramid audition in an anonymous conference room somewhere, with about 30-40 people. Everyone had to stand up and give the elevator-pitch. Oh shit. Now I was sweating. My turn came, I stood up, and blathered something that was like a tire going flat on the roadside. Now I got a master-class in Game Show Auditions. First was a quietly elegant 50ish woman, emerald-green shirtwaist dress, hair pulled back in a French Twist. "Hello, I'm [X]. I became fascinated by nouvelle cuisine,
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