8.5 Tom Petty: Saving Grace

A classic road song from his new Highway Companion CD, produced by Jeff Lynn. Also try “Big Weekend”, Travelling-Wilburys-style fun – takes me back a couple weeks to my trip down to see my brother Dan. We may have arrived at the LAN party place too late, but we saw “The Bodies” exhibit at MOSI in Tampa, fixed his computer (power supply was bad), ate 10 lbs of cookies dropped off by mom, visited Andrea’s dad in the ICU in St. Petersburg (he’s doing much better now), and played entire days of Empire At War.

He and Val and Bailey are in Germany right now, visiting Niki (congratulations, newlywed!), and having even BIGGER adventures. Whoop!

“The Bodies” exhibit was full of real human bodies, displayed right in front of you, a hundred or more, posed and dissected in different ways for better views. They are preserved by replacing water with acetone, then replacing the acetone with silicone. There were whole bodies, bodies made only of muscle or arteries or the nervous system or the digestive system, bodies cross-sectioned into a couple hundred “disks”, fetuses at every stage of development, etc. etc. Amazing AND creepy!

3 thoughts on “8.5 Tom Petty: Saving Grace

  1. Hahaha leave it to the “brainiac of minutia” to put all that together! Have you ever forgotten anything? You rock, you should donate your (living) mind to science, for the good of humanity! Peace brother.

  2. Hi Mike,
    I hope I did this correctly and that you will receive my message. I wanted to tell you what a great talent you have for writing. I think you should put your material into a book. It could be very helpful and informative for cancer patients. You have a wonderful way of expressing what has happened to you since the cancer entered your body. You continue to lead as normal a life as the disease has allowed you to do.
    We are all praying that you will be a success story and over power the cancer.

    Blessings,

    Marian E. Schmitt
    Parish Nurse at Zion

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