Evel Knievel

It may be time to sell my earthly belongings because the end may be near. MSNBC is reporting that Channing Tatum will be portraying Evel Knievel in an upcoming movie. I don't know much, but this I do know. This is the closest I will ever come to seeing the movie "Magic Mike".

I don't like tooting my own horn, but I was responsible for one of Evel Knievel's greatest jumps (or attempted jumps) and it happened in Hannibal.   You may not have heard of this great local event, probably because it was a stunt not technically attempted by Evel Knievel himself.  It was my Evel Knievel action figure and it is there that my story begins.

The warm weather has put me in a roller coaster mood.  It helps that I stopped maturing mentally around the age of 12.  But, I love roller coasters.  My oldest kids and I have a summer tradition of getting the Holliday family truckster out of moth balls once per year and heading to Six Flags in St...