A couple of weeks ago, as 2013 wound down, a player dragged me out to the woodshed for a beating over everything I’ve done to screw up the MUSH in the past few years. Crafting? Awful. Space system? Why? Game lore? So terribly convoluted! Bringing my alts online to pad the who list? Horribly deceitful…
This article appeared in The St. Petersburg Times in August 1992: Three teenagers stood talking in the soft glow of the lights outside the Kash n’ Karry at Seven Hills Plaza during the early morning hours of Aug. 14. The shopping center parking lot, a popular Spring Hill hangout, is no stranger to teen trouble. Last year,…
This article appeared in The St. Petersburg Times in September 1992: A year ago, Rick J. ate garbage from trash bins behind an Orlando shopping center. A cocaine addict and alcoholic, the 44-year-old Melbourne man had abandoned his wife, kids and job with the Internal Revenue Service for a life of petty crime. An embezzler and…
This article appeared in The St. Petersburg Times in July 1996: In the late 1930s, Tampa tax lawyer Ara Brubaker, son of a Pennsylvania Mennonite minister, invited friends to go skinny-dipping in a sparkling lake in central Pasco County. So began Lake Como Club, the first nudist retreat in Land O’Lakes. More than half a century…
