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Wild Krumpos

Year

1999

3 entries

  1. Friday, January 1, 1999 · Don Krumpos

    After my mom died, after high school ended, after the first rude awakening

    After my mom died, after high school ended, after the first rude awakening of adulthood, I filled the void with toys. Literally — Star Wars toys. I bought back my childhood with credit cards I should never have had. Shelves…

  2. Friday, January 1, 1999 · Don Krumpos

    The House That Held Him

    My father, with my grandfather's help, put a full new central chimney into our farmhouse. That sentence seems almost unbelievable to me now. A chimney is not a shelf or a bench or a toy barn. It is not a…

  3. Wednesday, May 19, 1999 · Don Krumpos

    Episode I

    1999 --- The trailer dropped before Waterboy. That's the absurd detail I remember most: a theater in Mequon, the only one in Wisconsin showing the first teaser for Star Wars: Episode I, and we were sitting through the opening credits…