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Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, “Hey, Sparky, let me see that aerial map of Hanoi.” Sparks would then oblige. He had the ability to pull down on one of his lower eyelids, flex a combination of facial muscles, and force his eyeball to bulge gruesomely from its socket. Though Billy’s bulging, bloodshot eye the morning after a long night at Takhli’s Stag Bar was unnerving, pilots viewed it as something of a good-luck talisman. And its resemblance to the air force’s bombing maps of Hanoi was so uncanny as to be satiri...

Mom: It’ll still be there on the weekend. Jill: Don’t make me go to school today. It’s the first day of snow. There’s snow on Mt. Tom! – The Other Side of the Mountain, Universal Pictures, 1975 The snow has not yet come to Mt. Tom. It is one more thing in the year 2020, our annus horriblis. The Eastern Sierra, with a 13,658-foot, snow-crested Mt. Tom as its showpiece, towers above the Owens Valley community of Bishop, CA. (Photo: Gary Young.) And as the days march into November, the residents of Bishop, CA, where I was raised, look with an increasing sense of dread t...

Mom: It’ll still be there on the weekend. Jill: Don’t make me go to school today. It’s the first day of snow. There’s snow on Mt. Tom! – The Other Side of the Mountain, Universal Pictures, 1975 The snow has not yet come to Mt. Tom. It is one more thing in the year 2020, our annus horriblis. The Eastern Sierra, with a 13,658-foot, snow-crested Mt. Tom as its showpiece, towers above the Owens Valley community of Bishop, CA. (Photo: Gary Young.) And as the days march into November, the residents of Bishop, CA, where I was raised, look with an increasing sense of dread t...

Whenever Billy Sparks was hungover, which was often, his fellow pilots would yell out, “Hey, Sparky, let me see that aerial map of Hanoi.” Sparks would then oblige. He had the ability to pull down on one of his lower eyelids, flex a combination of facial muscles, and force his eyeball to bulge gruesomely from its socket. Though Billy’s bulging, bloodshot eye the morning after a long night at Takhli’s Stag Bar was unnerving, pilots viewed it as something of a good-luck talisman. And its resemblance to the air force’s bombing maps of Hanoi was so uncanny as to be satiri...