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M.T. Bass
I have a Commercial Pilot's license for single engine/land aircraft. I am also a Certified Flight Instructor. Most of my instruction and all my check rides used various Cessna aircraft from C152s to C210 Centurions. When I lived Colorado, I belonged to a flying club that had 50 aircraft, so I got to fly the Piper and Mooney lines. Friends have shared some other fun makes & models. Recently, I've spent most of my time flying a Van's RV-7A experimental that a buddy of mine built in his garage and a Cessna Skyhawk. Here's my five all time favorites airplanes to fly: http://wp.me/pPbDg-57
M.T. Bass
Wow, what a great question. Now you've done it, though, you've gone and made me think…
The first ones that came to mind were all TV couples: Lucy & Ricky, Ralph & Alice, Bones & Booth, Beckett & Castle, etc. Okay, Romeo and Juliet popped up pretty quickly, but I had to really dig through the memory banks trying to come up with some from novels. I've read Kathy Reichs, Richard Castle, Larry McMurtry and David Balducci's King & Maxwell books, but my mind defaults back to the characters on the screen. Maybe it's that I'm not well read in Romance. Maybe I've just been so brain-washed by the boob tube…I just can't think of an iconic couple from the novels I've read that jumps up as one of my favorites.
So, I'll default back to TV: Emma Peel and John Steed from the Avengers.
Why? It was a fun show to watch and they had a completely unstereotypical (is that a word? Spell check says, "No") and intriguing relationship as co-equals.
But I'm still thinking about the books I've read…
The first ones that came to mind were all TV couples: Lucy & Ricky, Ralph & Alice, Bones & Booth, Beckett & Castle, etc. Okay, Romeo and Juliet popped up pretty quickly, but I had to really dig through the memory banks trying to come up with some from novels. I've read Kathy Reichs, Richard Castle, Larry McMurtry and David Balducci's King & Maxwell books, but my mind defaults back to the characters on the screen. Maybe it's that I'm not well read in Romance. Maybe I've just been so brain-washed by the boob tube…I just can't think of an iconic couple from the novels I've read that jumps up as one of my favorites.
So, I'll default back to TV: Emma Peel and John Steed from the Avengers.
Why? It was a fun show to watch and they had a completely unstereotypical (is that a word? Spell check says, "No") and intriguing relationship as co-equals.
But I'm still thinking about the books I've read…
M.T. Bass
It's easy, really: http://www.sympholio.com/ElectronAlle...
M.T. Bass
Catch-22 is my favorite book and I really wanted to kind of pay my respects by attempting to write a big sprawling, character strewn mess of black humor. But the problem was, about what? Everybody has crazy "war stories" about work and as I collected my own share of scars and tall tales to go with them, business seemed a good place to start and, then, what better setting than the Sixties with all its epic zaniness. Of course, if you're going to do a story set against the back drop of the Generation Gap, then you need generations to gap, hence the Father/Son dynamic. However it measures up, In the Black was a lot of fun to write.
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